James David Dickson

The Detroit News

Detroit homicide detectives are off to a busy morning on Wednesday after four people were found slain in three different crime scenes on the city’s west side.

Two victims were killed in southwest Detroit.

About 3 a.m., a 48-year-old Hispanic male was found dead inside a house fire on the 8700 block of Lane, said Officer Dan Donakowski, a Detroit police spokesman. The Detroit Fire Department responded to a call about the house fire, but after extinguishing the blaze found the victim inside, “badly burned and deceased.” The Wayne County Medical Examiner will determine the man’s official cause of death.

Less than an hour later, about three miles up the road off Vernor Highway, a white female, believed to be 30 to 40 years old, was found dead on the street on the 2400 block of Junction. This was about 3:57 a.m. The woman had been stabbed in the chest, but otherwise few details on the circumstances of her death are known, Donakowksi said.

Also, at 4:15 a.m., two black male victims were found fatally shot on the 19000 block of Fenmore — just south of West Seven Mile and just east of the Southfield Freeway. One man was found inside, near the front door, shot in the head. The second victim was found in a bathroom with a fatal gunshot wound to his back.

The Wayne County medical examiner identified the men Thursday as Ronald Napoleon Tyler, 52, and Donald Napoleon Tyler, 52, and said the cause of death in each was was multiple gunshot wounds.

Two black male suspects were seen running from the house, toward Pembroke, Donakowski said.

jdickson@detroitnews.com