Four people, including boy, killed in New York City shooting

[July 31, 2018]    (Reuters) - Four people, including a young boy, were shot and killed on Monday in a New York City apartment, police said.

Two females, one male and a boy, about five years old, were found dead from gunshot wounds inside the apartment in the borough of Queens, after police and emergency crews were called to the scene a little before 9 p.m., New York City Police Department Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea told a news conference.

Police are investigating if the shooting was a murder-suicide, Shea said.

"We will take the evidence where ever it leads us," he said. "We don't want to leave any stone unturned."

(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

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