Watertown community says that 3 residents shot dead in home were "lovely people" who were "like a family"

Residents in Watertown, Massachusetts, are looking for answers after three people were found shot dead Sunday morning in a multi-family home.

The Middlesex County District Attorney said police were called to the home on Boyd Street at around 10 a.m. for a wellness check.

Three residents, a man and two women, were found dead inside with apparent gunshot wounds, according to the district attorney.

An elderly woman was found on one floor of the unit, while the man and woman were found on the bottom floor of the same unit, where they lived together. All the victims knew each other.

"They were lovely people. It's certainly a tragedy that we're still recovering from," a neighbor, who declined to give her name, told WBZ-TV.

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