NEW YORK – Two men and a woman were shot and killed in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West side, police said Saturday.
The bodies were found in an upscale building Saturday evening with a semiautomatic gun nearby, police Sgt. Kevin Hayes said. It was unclear when they had been shot.
Neighbor William Glenn told Newsday his wife had "heard a couple of bangs" around 8 p.m. Friday.
Investigators did not know whether the three were related or if any of them lived in the eighth-floor apartment, Hayes said. Their names were not released.
No one else was there when the 46-year-old woman and a 57-year-old man were found on the floor, and a second man was found in a chair, the sergeant said. Police did not have the second man's age.
A visibly distraught woman arrived at the building Saturday night and left with police; a man who arrived with her told reporters they were relatives.
Detectives were talking to residents of the 10-story co-op with decorative wrought-iron doors on a quiet residential block. A man answering the phone at the building office declined to comment and hung up.
"It's a pretty good block," said Alice Cruz, a resident of the area who was among a small crowd outside the building Saturday night. "You get it (violence) even in the best neighborhoods."
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