5-Year-Old Twin Boy and Girl Found Dead Inside New York City Apartment by ‘Distraught’ Mother

Five-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, were found dead by their mother in an apartment in New York on Monday.

In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, an NYPD spokesperson said police responded to a 911 call at 11:20 a.m. local time and found a 5-year-old male and a 5-year-old female “unconscious and unresponsive” in an apartment on at 240 East 175th Street in the Bronx.

“Emergency services responded and pronounced the children who were being treated dead at the scene,” the statement added.

The investigation into the children’s deaths is ongoing, and the cause of their deaths will be determined by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Authorities told CBS New York that there were no visible signs of trauma to the children, that no carbon monoxide was detected upstairs and that the family had no history of domestic violence.

Police said the investigation into the children’s deaths is still ongoing.

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“At this point we don’t know if there were any violations,” said Benjamin Gurley, assistant chief of the NYPD.

“Even when I went up and the officers, when you go up there and you see two 5-year-olds laying on the floor unresponsive and cold at this time of year, you can imagine what a family is going through,” Gurley added. “You can imagine what a mother, a father is going through.”

According to ABC7, authorities learned the children were sent home from school sick last week and were still home Monday. Their mother was with them in the house at the time of the incident.

NYPD van outside an apartment building on East 175th Street.

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Since then, she has been hospitalized due to emotional stress, according to the newspaper.

“The father is currently in the 46th precinct, the co-op,” Gurley said, according to the newspaper. “The mother was taken to the hospital for treatment. She is not injured, but she is emotionally shaken.”

“At this point, we’re going to treat it as a crime scene because we don’t know if it’s foul play or not,” he continued to ABC7. “We don’t want to touch the crime scene. The medical examiner will let us know based on his investigation and our crime scene unit if there was foul play.”

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