Detroit Double Homicides: 2 Men Found Shot In Home, 2 Women Found Dead In Car On East Side

2 Women, 2 Men Found Dead On Detroit's East Side

The discovery of two double homicides in less than 24 hours has rocked a Detroit neighborhood. Two women were found dead in the trunk of a car Monday afternoon on the city's east side, and two men were found dead in a nearby house late Monday night.

Responding to reports of gunshots, police showed up around midnight Tuesday to find two men dead in a home on Houston-Whittier Street on the city's east side, the Detroit Free Press reports.

According to WDIV-TV, police have yet to make any arrests and are still working on identifying the victims.

The men's bodies were found about eight blocks away from the 14400 block of Promenade, where two women were found dead in the trunk of a car on Monday afternoon.

The two women, Renesha Landers, 23, and Denesha Hunt, 24, were cousins. They were reported missing by relatives after they were last seen going to a party Saturday night, WDIV-TV reports.

A neighbor reported the vehicle, a Chrysler 300 that matched a description of the vehicle the women were driving, to police after seeing it parked next to a vacant house on the block, the Free Press reports.

Autopsies for the women are scheduled for Tuesday.

There was no immediate indication the deaths were related.

While violent crime has decreased overall, Detroit's murder rate has increased already this year, according to FBI statistics released Monday. The city saw 173 homicides in the first six months of 2011.

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