2 Men Found Shot to Death in Motel Near Disneyland : Crime: Police have not established a suspect, motive or identification of the victims. Utah visitors in a nearby room heard ‘pounding’ noises and ‘a big thud.’

Police are investigating a possible double homicide after two men were found Saturday morning shot to death on the floor of a bullet-riddled motel room near Disneyland.

Police said Saturday night that they have not yet established a suspect, motive, description of the murder weapon or positive identification of the victims, whose ages were estimated at 25 and 30.

Police said they do not know whether the victims were the two men who registered in Room 190 of the Westward Ho Motel at 415 W. Katella Ave.

The bodies were found about 7:40 a.m., police said, by other guests who were walking by the room and noticed that the door was open. Looking inside, the passersby saw the bodies, dressed and lying on the floor.

Motel manager Gerard Waskiewicz said the men registered for the room were from Orange County, but he would not elaborate.

He also said a young man who came to the motel later Saturday morning said one of the victims was his cousin.

However, Sgt. Chet Barry, who is in charge of the homicide investigation, said police are uncertain who the victims are and hope that an autopsy and fingerprint match will yield information.

Barry said the men were shot in the upper body sometime after 1 a.m. He would not say how many wounds they received but said more than eight shots were fired in the room, judging from bullet holes.

Waskiewicz said the shots were apparently muffled by the motel’s thick, cinder-block walls.

“One guest thought he might have heard it,” he said, “but it was the middle of the night, and he just rolled over and went back to sleep.”

Another guest, Yolanda McEntire, 18--a member of a traveling youth choir from Clearfield, Utah, that was staying at the motel--said she stepped outside at 1:30 a.m. to look for a mailbox when she saw two men checking into the room where the bodies were later found.

“They started laughing at me,” McEntire said. “I slammed my door, they scared me so bad.”

Shortly afterward, McEntire and her three roommates said, they heard “pounding” noises coming from the room.

“It sounded like (something) hitting a wall,” said Angie Chapman, 17.

“Over and over again,” said her sister, Suzie, 19. “Not like a gunshot or anything.”

“A big thud,” said La Dawn Alexander, 17. “Then it just quit.”

Times staff writer Lily Dizon contributed to this article.