Detectives investigate triple homicide in Lawndale

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department was investigating a triple homicide in Lawndale this afternoon.

The bodies of two men and a woman were discovered inside an apartment on Larch Avenue about 2:25 p.m., a sheriff’s official said.

Homicide detectives were on the scene trying to determine what happened. Officials don’t know how long the victims were dead, and it’s unclear how they were discovered.

The victims’ names have not been released, and officials are not disclosing how they were killed.

–Richard Winton