DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit police are investigating after three bodies were found inside the basement of a home on Wednesday afternoon.
Police told 7 News Detroit that the three bodies were found at a home on Edsel Street, just off of Fort Street near Outer Drive. That's in the southern part of the city near Ecorse.
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According to Detroit Police Major Crimes Cmdr. Rebecca McKay, officers were in the area talking to people about a missing person when a man ran up to them and said he had just been assaulted inside the home on Edsel.
The man also reportedly told officers there were dead people in the house.
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Officers went inside the home and found blood everywhere and the bodies in the basement, wrapped in towels and carpeting, sources told 7 News Detroit.