DETROIT – Detroit police spent hours collecting evidence at a home on Edsel Street on Wednesday evening after officers discovered three men dead inside while responding to a missing person report.
Officers arrived just before 1 p.m. and were approached by a person who said they had been assaulted at the home. Upon entering, officers found the three men who appeared to have been brutally attacked, said Rebecca McKay, commander of the Detroit Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit.
Michigan State Police assisted the Detroit Police Department in analyzing the crime scene.
At one point, police towed a blue SUV from the location.
McKay said it was too early to say if the homicides were connected to the missing person case officers were originally investigating, saying the person had been reported missing from a nearby address.
McKay said police are still working to identify all three victims.
Neighbors were shocked to learn the home was the scene of a triple homicide.
Thomas Barnes, who lives nearby, said he hadn’t heard anything unusual around the time of the assaults.
“It just leaves you kind of like, what do you do, what do you say? I’ve been living here for I don’t know how long, and there’s been incidents here and there, but you don’t think it’s going to happen in your neighborhood, but here it is,” Barnes said.
Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
“We would appreciate it if they saw anything, if they have any information that they can get to us, we would appreciate them giving a call to Crime Stoppers or calling the homicide section with the Detroit Police Department so that we can follow up on any information that they might have for us,” McKay said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Detroit Police Department at 313-596-2200.