In a house in Tenafly, New Jersey that housed many Korean Americans, three were found dead at 4:15 p.m. last Friday. The bodies of a man in his 70s, a woman in her 50s, and a young man in his 20s have not yet been identified. Police said the woman is thought to be the mother of the young man.

Citing a Korean American, CBS News reported the older man and the woman were living together, and the woman’s 26-year-old son, who was running a mobile phone business, looked after them. According to police, the daughter of the old man came to the house with her husband after being unable to contact him for days. Her husband went into the house through the back door, which was unlocked, and found the bodies. Police assume the killing took place more than a week prior to the discovery and are treating it as a planned revenge killing as all three were stabbed multiple times without any signs of robbery. The body of the younger man is said to have defensive wounds. “We do not believe this to be a random homicide,” said prosecutor John Molinelli.

The morning of the same day, Kyong-Sook Woo, a 63-year-old woman who owned a dry cleaning business in Brooklyn, New York, was found dead. An employee thought it peculiar that the laundry was still closed in the morning and went in, only to find the dead body of his employer. Police assume the murder took place the night before and are treating it as a robbery as Woo’s car, which had been parked near the shop, is missing. Woo had been running the dry cleaning business alone after her husband fell ill with diabetes five years ago. She had been taking care of her husband by visiting the nursery every week. Woo had survived two burglaries, and worked long hours from early in the morning until late at night, opening and closing the shop herself, a local newspaper reported.

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