Mysterious Deaths Rock Bayonne, N.J. Neighborhood

BAYONNE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- Police Tuesday evening were trying to figure out how two people found inside a New Jersey home died.

Police were called to the house on West 10th Street in Bayonne around 9 a.m. Tuesday. The call first came in as a carbon monoxide emergency, but two bodies were discovered at the scene.

The 36-year-old mother and her 19-year-old daughter were discovered by the mother's boyfriend when he returned from shoveling snow Tuesday morning. They were found in the living room and were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor's office.

The Bayonne Fire Department determined that carbon monoxide levels were within normal limits, prosecutors said.

Drug paraphernalia was found in the apartment, prosecutors said.

Battling the snow and ice, the local medical examiner's office carried out two bodies. The circumstances behind the deaths remained a mystery late Tuesday.

"There was the mother, the two daughters, the boyfriend, which they took away in a police car," neighbor Barbara Janiscwski said.

She said she also saw police take the mother's boyfriend away for questioning. But prosecutors late Tuesday said no one had been arrested or taken into custody.

"State of shock. I just can't believe that they're gone," Janiscwski said.

Bayonne police blocked traffic as investigators with the Prosecutor's office combed through the home.

The mother lived in the first floor of the home with the daughter who was also found dead and another daughter, 18, who was not home at the time, neighbors and prosecutors said. Also living in the home is a 2-year-old daughter of the 19-year-old, who was taken to Bayonne Medical Center for observation, prosecutors said.

The second daughter showed up to the scene later and witnesses said she collapsed when she learned her mother and sister were dead, Kozar reported.

"Scary, scary," neighbor Vivian Reeves said, adding when asked if she ever heard anything suspicious, "No, not at all."

Neighbors said the family has lived on the street for about five years.

The cause and manner of the deaths were pending autopsies at the medical examiner's office.