A body on the Don Valley Parkway that shut down traffic for hours Saturday afternoon is reportedly linked to the discovery of three dead bodies in a third-floor Thorncliffe Park apartment.

Toronto Paramedics said they responded to a call at 85 Thorncliffe Park Dr. at 4:41 p.m. and found three deceased inside. Paramedics said police then took over.

Toronto Police homicide Det. Tam Bui confirmed police were investigating a “multiple homicide” at a unit in 85 Thorncliffe Park Dr. and would be on scene for “a few days.”

“There is some correlation to an event that happened earlier on in the city,” Bui said. “The exact connection is unknown at this time and it is currently under investigation.”

CP24 reported that a “confidential police source” said the apartment where the bodies were found was the home of a man who fell onto the Don Valley Parkway, about a kilometre away, earlier in the day.

Toronto Paramedics told the Star they received a call just after 1 p.m. and found a man in his 30s or 40s who had fallen onto the DVP. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

Star reporter Vanessa Lu, who was driving south on the DVP near the Leaside Bridge around 1:10 p.m., saw a GO bus angled across the two left lanes with pylons placed around it, and then, as traffic inched past in the remaining open lane, what appeared to be the body of a man wearing a blue team jacket lying on the highway with blood underneath him.

The Star spoke to more than a dozen residents of the 44-storey building, none of whom had any knowledge of the victims or what had occurred. One resident, who didn’t want to be named, expressed shock at hearing the news.

“It’s one of the nicest buildings in this area,” she said. “This would not be the building you’d expect it in.”

CP24 reported that a resident said he’d seen two police officers trying desperately to break into a green minivan on the second level of the building’s underground parking garage in the afternoon. Many police and forensic vehicles as well as a tow truck were on scene later in the evening.

All southbound lanes on the DVP were closed south of Eglinton Ave. for close to eight hours while police investigated, creating traffic chaos throughout the area until the highway reopened at about 9 p.m.