DETROIT — Police searching for a missing person found the bodies of three men in a Detroit home, authorities said Thursday.
The victims, ages 65, 66 and 72, were beaten and stabbed late Tuesday or early Wednesday, Assistant Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald said.
“It was a brutal scene inside, absolutely horrific,” he said.
The motive was not immediately known. Investigators are seeking information and searching for the suspect.
“The man who lived on this site opened his house up to a lot of people. They come and go,” Fitzgerald told reporters. “Unfortunately, there has been some speculation that some drugs may have been used at the site, but we cannot confirm at this stage.”
The victims were “left in a basement covered in dirty clothes, and one of them was covered with a rug,” Fitzgerald said.
One of the men was a war veteran and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, said a neighbour, Thomas Barnes.
Barnes is the president of his recently renamed club.
“It’s now called Harmony Village,” Barnes told the Detroit News. “Ridiculous, huh?”