Police looking for missing person find 3 men dead in Detroit house
DETROIT — Police searching for a missing person have discovered the bodies of three men in a Detroit home, authorities said Thursday.
The victims, ages 65, 66 and 72, were bludgeoned and stabbed late Tuesday or early Wednesday, Deputy Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald said.
“It was a brutal scene inside, just horrible,” he said.
The motive was not immediately known. Investigators were seeking tips and looking for a suspect.
“The gentleman who lived there opened his house to a lot of people. They come and go,” Fitzgerald told reporters. “Unfortunately there has been speculation that drugs may be used at the venue, but we cannot confirm this at this stage.”
The victims were “left in a basement covered in dirty clothes; one person was covered in a rug,” Fitzgerald said.
A neighbor, Thomas Barnes, said one of the men was a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Barnes is president of his bouldering club, which recently changed its name.
“It’s called Harmony Village now,” Barnes told the Detroit News. “Ironic, huh? »
