Queens double shooting leaves 2 people dead

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
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FAR ROCKAWAY, Queens (WABC) -- Police are investigating a double shooting in Queens that left two people dead on Tuesday.

According to officials, police responded to a 911 call around 2 p.m. of two males shot inside a home on Deerfield Road in Far Rockaway.

Police say they found a 15-year-old and 34-year-old male with gunshot wounds to the their torsos.

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Sources tell Eyewitness News police have found a dismembered body inside a Lower East Side building.

EMS responded to the scene and transported both of the victims to St. John's Episcopal Hospital where they were pronounced dead.

Police say it was a female relative inside the home that heard the gunshots, discovered the bodies and then called police.

They say a revolver was recovered inside the home.

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Police do not currently know the relationship between the two male victims.

There no arrests in the incident and the investigation is ongoing.

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