Three men shot execution-style in a Birmingham house have now been identified.

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office this morning identified the victims as Willie Cornelius Washington, 35, Johnny Kordara Griffin, 24 and Korde Lorodius Turner, 24. All were identified by family members, said Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates.

The bodies were found inside the home at 457 3rd Street North at 12:05 p.m. Monday. They were officially pronounced dead at 12:58 p.m.

Washington was found dead on the floor just inside the front door where it appears he had been sleeping prior to his death. He was lying on a pillow with a blanket on top of him. Griffin and Turner were found lying on couches. Police recovered all three bullets underneath each of the victims.

They are Birmingham's 26th, 27th and 28th homicide victims in 2015.

Turner in 2013 was acquitted in the 2009 murder of another man. Turner had been charged with murder in connection with the April 10, 2009 slaying of Leroy "Little Fred" Yarbrough, who was shot in the chest while in the 300 block of Fourth Terrace North in Smithfield.

Korde Turner

During his trial, Turner admitted he had shot Yarbrough, but only after Yarbrough had reached for a gun. That was his only arrest, according to Alabama court records.

Griffin pleaded guilty last year to robbery after he stole a woman's Nissan pickup truck at knife-point, court records show. He was sentenced to 360 days.

No arrests have been made in the triple killing, said Birmingham police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards. Police are looking into several tips called in to Crime Stoppers.

"Every homicide is absolutely tragic for the families and the community but any incident involving multiple victims brings an entirely different level of intensity to our investigation," Birmingham police Chief A.C. Roper told AL.com Monday. "This type of heinous crime just doesn't happen in a vacuum so we need someone in the community to step up and provide the information we need to bring the suspect to justice and provide closure to these families."

Police and family members said they believe the victims were comfortable with whoever killed them. "Whoever did this was in the house with them,'' said Jackie Robinson, Turner's cousin. "It had to be somebody they were familiar with because he didn't just hang out with anybody. He waited until they were asleep or their guard was down and that's when he killed them."

"It appears they were either surprised or asleep" when the gunman went in, Edwards said. "We don't know if they were looking for one or all three."

Tykneshia Boyd, 28, said she received a call from the mother of the Turner's 2-year-old daughter who said she had been trying to reach him and couldn't. She asked Boyd to go check on him. When Boyd went to the house, she knocked on the door but no one answered. She said she heard the television on and push open the door, which wasn't locked. Once inside, she saw a man on the floor with a comforter or blanket over his head.

"I pulled the cover back and seen his head busted open," Boyd said. She ran outside and saw another neighbor, Annie Hines. Hines is no stranger to violence. Her son, 23-year-old Latrelle Hines, died in September 2014 just several houses away from today's triple slaying.

Hines and Boyd called 911 and then went back into the home where Boyd had found the bodies. "I was scared to walk back in the house," Boyd said. Hines went inside where she found two more victims, one on each couch.

"I saw one in the floor with a bullet hole in his head," Hines said. "And the other one had been shot multiple times in the back and another one had been shot multiple times too."

Edwards said investigators believe the men were killed late Sunday night or early Monday morning. They likely had been dead 12 hours or less when their bodies were discovered.

Turner was the father of a toddler daughter. "He did things he shouldn't have done but he didn't bother anybody,'' Robinson said. "He had a kind and loving heart."

"I've been knowing him since he was a kid,'' said Betty Brown of the same victim. Her son was his best friend. "He had a good heart, and he was an overall good person. I loved him. I've been praying for him forever."

Washington, whose parents and sister are dead, was known by his nickname "Itty Bitty." He was living in the home that neighbors described as a "trap house." Authorities said it was "vacant" though obviously people stayed there. The power had been disconnected, but investigators said there was power being run to the home through another neighbor's home. "He just rode a bike and smiled all the time,'' Brown said.

Griffin, family said, was laid back. "He wasn't the type of person that would harm anybody,'' Robinson said. "He always brought laughter to the room."

Police said one of the victim's was known to carry money, but no money was found inside the home.

Ashley Tolbert said she had been with all three of the victims Sunday afternoon. "One of our friends said he saw them about 1 a.m.,'' she said. "I can't even say what I'm feeling right now."

Neighborhood president Shirley Floyd was one of the first to the crime scene. "We couldn't get in there but those who were able to peep inside said it was three of our neighbors shot in the head," Floyd said. She said the slayings hit the community hard. "No one wants to feel like you can get killed in your own house. It's just shocking."

Community activists are planning some kind of vigil for the victims to be held in the neighborhood later this week. "It affects the community as a whole. This is not the first time violence has hit this community,'' Robinson said. "It think its time for the community to pull together and do something about it."