What to Know
- Police are investigating the killings of a couple in their 60s, found stabbed in their second-floor apartment in Flushing, Queens, Wednesday
- An arrest hasn't been made and a motive wasn't clear. The victims haven't been identified
- Neighbors say they're horrified to hear of the killings; they say their block is quiet
Police say they're investigating the deadly stabbings of a couple in their Queens apartment Wednesday morning.
Officers were called to a second-floor apartment on 37th Avenue in Flushing just after 10:15 a.m., and found a 67-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman dead with stab wounds to their stomachs, police said.
They were pronounced dead at the scene. Early Thursday, police said a person of interest has been identified, but no other details about the person were released.
"That's horrendous, it's horrendous to hear that," said neighbor Sung Kim.
"I've lived here over 40 years, I've never heard of anything like that," said another woman.
No arrest has been made. Detectives were in and out of the modest apartment building into the night Wednesday.
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Chung Huang, who lives on the first floor of the same building, said there had been problems with drinking and fighting in the building. Police had responded two weeks ago, though he could only speculate it was because of the fighting -- and it wasn't clear whether it was the victims who'd been involved in that incident.
