Teen Brothers Found Dead, Uncle Prime Suspect

Two teenage brothers were found dead in an Arcadia home Friday and their uncle was being sought as a suspect.

Officers responded earlier Friday to a call of unknown trouble in the 400 block of Fairview Avenue, according to Arcadia police.

Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau detectives were handling the investigation, according to an Arcadia police watch commander, who declined to release any details and referred further questions to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.

A sheriff’s deputy said no information about the investigation was immediately available.

Coroner’s office personnel were at the scene late this afternoon, a witness said.

The uncle was already being sought for an assault on his wife Thursday night in La Canada Flintridge, Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau Lt. Eddie Hernandez told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, which reported that the suspect became enraged upon finding out that his wife had filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order against him.

The brothers were 15 and 16, Hernandez told the newspaper.

They appeared to have suffered blunt force trauma, according to a number of reports.

--City News Service, photo courtesy of the Arcadia Police Department