Mentally disabled mother and daughter killed in Clinton Township

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI — A police representative in Clinton Township confirmed a double homicide occurred Monday but would provide no further information Tuesday morning.

MLive left a message for Capt. Richard Maierle requesting further information. Police say a press release with further details is forthcoming this afternoon.

that a mother, 46, and her 12-year-old daughter, both mentally disabled, were found dead in their second-floor apartment at Parkway Village apartments about 3 p.m. Tuesday and the suspected killer, a neighbor, was arrested Wednesday.

A "cutting instrument" was found at the seen; the mother was found by an apartment employee in the living room and her daughter in a bedroom, The Free Press reports

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No further details have been released pertaining to the suspect.

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