3 people stabbed to death in NYC home as landlord confesses to doing 'something bad': police
Suspect walks into Queens police precinct, says he 'did something bad' before police found bodies
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Three people – two women and one man – were found stabbed to death inside a New York City home early Tuesday after the landlord handed himself over to police and appeared to confess.
The landlord, a 54-year-old man, walked into the police precinct in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens at around 7 a.m. and said he "did something bad," NYPD Assistant Chief Kevin Williams said at a Tuesday morning press briefing.
Williams added that the man appeared calm while talking to police.
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Three people were found stabbed to death inside a New York City home early Tuesday in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens. (FNTV)
Police then rushed to the man’s house at 122-39 Milburn St. and found the three victims.
A man and woman, who are believed to be a couple, were found lying face up on a basement floor while a 51-year-old woman was knifed to death and found face down in an upstairs bedroom, the NYPD said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}EMS responded and pronounced all three victims dead at the scene, police said.
Police cordon off the scene of a deadly triple stabbing in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens. (FNTV)
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The victims are understood to be tenants of the house and their identities were not immediately made public.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Williams said the murder weapon had not yet been recovered.
Three people were found stabbed to death inside a New York City home early Tuesday. (Fox 5 New York)
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The motive for the stabbings is unclear, but reports say the killings followed a dispute over rent payments and that the landlord may have also lived in the house.
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