Neighbors in the summer community where a 70-year-old Wareham man was shot to death were left reeling at the news on Wednesday, Feb. 10.

Local and state police reported that John Williams, of 120 Glen Charlie Road, was found unresponsive inside his home, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds at approximately noon on Tuesday, Feb. 9.

Police were responding to a request for a welfare check on Williams that had been called in on Tuesday. Checking the house, they discovered his body.

State Police detectives are currently investigating. Officials said that there does not appear to be a threat to the general public.

Several residents, some asking to remain unidentified, reported a heavy police presence in the area Tuesday. None reported knowing Williams.

“It was a shock,” said one woman who has lived in the neighborhood for 20 years.

Carol Reams, a nurse, said she saw numerous police near her Agawam Drive home on Tuesday, an unusual commotion in the small community tucked between Mill and Spectacle ponds.

“When something serious happens, that’s the kind of response you expect to see,” Reams said.

Taking a break from shoveling the remnants of Monday’s blizzard, Reams said the area is particularly quiet this time of year.

Parked on the narrow, unpaved side streets were jet skis, motor boats and cars under plastic sheeting for the winter. Undisturbed snow sat on sidewalks and driveways leading up to some doors of the cottages.

“It’s mostly summer people,” Reams said, adding that she didn’t know Williams.

Another woman, who lives a few doors down from 120 Glen Charlie Road, said residents are neighborly, but not overly friendly.

“We keep to ourselves for the most part,” she said, asking to remain unidentified. “When we see people we know, we say ‘hi and bye.’”

She said having the shooting so close to her home was “cause for concern.”

Jim Munise, another Glen Charlie Road resident, lives approximately 100 yards from where Williams was shot.

“That something like that would happen is troubling,” Munise said. “Desperate people do desperate things.”

Munise reported that the medical examiner’s van was parked in the Williams driveway for some time Tuesday, and he saw a police officer speak to a “visibly upset woman” at the time.

Munise bought his lakeside property on Glen Charlie Road in 2011, but has been a Wareham resident since the 1980s.

As Munise spoke, a crew wearing black polo shirts from Aftermath Services LLC entered and exited the home. According to the company’s website, the business specializes in cleaning up crime scenes.

The crew also worked in the fenced-in backyard, where a wooden swing set and yellow slide could be seen.

Munise said he learned the reason why Aftermath Services was there from a Boston-based TV news crew asking questions in the area Wednesday afternoon.

“Hopefully (police) will find out who did it,” Munise said.