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Cops: Man, Woman Found Dead Inside Brooklyn Apartment

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Police say a man and a woman have been found dead inside a bloody Brooklyn public housing apartment.

They say the two adults were discovered around 7 p.m. Sunday in a fifth floor apartment in the Sheepshead Bay Houses.

According to police, the 40-year-old man was found dead in the kitchen, and the 39-year-old  woman was found in the back bedroom.

Fire officials say emergency medical workers pronounced the two victims dead at the scene. Their identities weren't released.

It wasn't immediately clear how the man and woman died.

Sources told 1010 WINS there what blood everywhere, and they can't determine if they were stabbed or shot.

Police say someone flagged a nearby patrol car and responding officers found the apartment's door ajar.

Police have taken the dead woman's 15-year-old daughter into custody, but no arrests have been made, sources told 1010 WINS.

No suspects have been identified, sources said.

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