(NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Arlington, Mass.) - "This is obviously a very troubling and very tragic situation," said Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.
A family of four is dead and a community reeling as questions surround the disturbing discovery made at this meticulously kept up Newland Road condo in this normally quiet Arlington neighborhood.
Forty-three-year-old husband and wife Scott and Mei Kum Jones were found dead along with their twin boys Colt and Cameron – just days away from celebrating their first birthday on Nov. 26.
"Shortly after noon today Arlington Police received a call for a well-being check, they responded to the home, they had been called to the home by a neighbor, another tenant in the house, the officers were able to make entrance into the apartment, they located four individuals – two adults, two children," D.A. Ryan said.
Investigators are not releasing cause or manner of death, but Arlington Police Chief Frederick Ryan left little question that police believe whatever happened in the home is not a threat to others.
"There is no risk to public safety at this time, we’re quite certain that the community is safe and that people can go about their business," Chief Ryan said.
As night fell, the medical examiner’s office removed their bodies from the home – these small black boxes carrying the infants, whom many can’t believe are gone.
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Jerry Bowser, who grew up in neighborhood, said, "You look at your daughter, you look at your son, you look at your niece and your nephew and you look at your granddaughter, I just became a grandfather, how does the innocent get hurt, that’s what I don’t get."
Authorities stress they are not looking for any additional suspects Monday night. They say a determination of cause and manner of death will be made pending autopsies.
