Two men and a woman were killed in an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West side, police said Saturday.
The bodies were found in an upscale building shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday, with a gun nearby, police Sgt. Kevin Hayes said. It was unclear when they died.
Neighbor William Glenn told Newsday his wife had “heard a couple of bangs” at about 8 p.m. Friday.
Investigators did not know whether the three were related or whether any of them lived in the eighth-floor apartment, Hayes said. Their names and ages were not released.
No one else was there when the woman and one man were found on the floor, and a second man was found in a chair, the sergeant said.
A visibly distraught woman arrived at the building and left with police around 8 p.m. Saturday; a man who arrived with her said they were relatives when reporters asked.
Detectives were talking Saturday to residents of the West 93rd Street building, a 10-story co-op with a doorman and 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 of onlookers who gathered outside the building Saturday night. “You get it (violence) even in the best neighborhoods.”