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UPDATED: Police make arrest in Park DuValle triple-homicide

Louisville police are investigating the slayings of three people whose bodies were found inside a home in 1600 block of Louis Coleman Jr. Drive in west Louisville's Park DuValle neighborhood Saturday afternoon.

None of the victims have been identified, and police weren't saying how the three males died. Each exhibited "visible trauma," said LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell during a brief statement to reporters at the scene.

There are no suspects, and police are asking for the public's help in solving the murders.

It's been a particularly deadly week in Louisville. The week started with a double homicide, raising the year's murder count to 51. Saturday's three deaths boosted the total to 54. There were also two young girls, ages 16 and 10, killed by an impaired driver who's been charged in their deaths, as well as the death of a five-year-old girl who was run accidentally over by a relative.

Mitchell described the homicides as yet another tragedy for the families, the community and the uphill battle "to curb this violence."

Police in LMPD's Second Division were called to the scene near the intersection with Young Street at 4:15 Saturday afternoon. After police sectioned off the area around three homes on the southeast corner of the intersection, several officers and investigators stood in front of a brown brick home where a large front window was shattered.

Jeff Kemp, 58, a car salesman who grew up in the Cotter Home housing development and visits his old neighborhood often, said he was headed to pickup basketball when police rushed to the scene. He saw nothing out of the ordinary at the home, Kemp said, but it was shocking to hear three people were dead. "It seems like it just keeps getting worse," he said, adding that "I don't really seeing anything getting done" to stop the senseless violence.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 502-574-5673.

Reporter Grace Schneider can be reached at 502-582-4082 or gschneider@courier-journal.com.