MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - Six people, including two children, were found dead Monday night in a home on Lester Street in Memphis.
Memphis Fire Department spokeswoman Melanie Young said firefighters responded to a 911 call at a home at 722 Lester at 6:11 p.m. Monday, where the bodies and wounded children were found.
The wounded children - a 7-year-old boy, a 10-month-old girl and a 4-year-old whose gender wasn't immediately known - were transported to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center.
According to hospital spokeswoman Jennilyn Utkov, the children were taken to the emergency room to be treated. No further information was available about their conditions.
Sources told Action News 5 the four adults found dead suffered from gunshot wounds, while the two children were found stabbed to death. The three children found alive were also stabbed. All nine victims were found in the same room.
Neighbors identified the person living at the home as Cecil Dotson. Dotson's sister Nicole was frightened for her family members.
"You know when you come to stuff like this you think the worst," she said. "You think someone is dead. I am scared to death, all my nieces and nephews are in there."
Police were uncertain whether Dotson was among the bodies.
Though the bodies were discovered Monday night, it was unclear exactly when the murders took place. Neighbors in the area reported hearing a disturbance at the home over the weekend, including the sound of gunshots around 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
As news of the grisly find spread though the neighborhood, residents gathered in spite of the rainy weather to watch from afar as police conducted their investigation.
Homicide detectives could be seen speaking with relatives sitting in a car near the house where the killings happened.
"It's sad you come home to find out something like this has gone on," neighbor Leo Baker said. "I've been living here for 10 years. It's kind of sad, and scary too."
Baker said he didn't know the family living in the house.
Wayne Bolden, who lived across the street from where the shooting happened, told The Associated Press that the male occupant of the house periodically fired shots in his yard.
"He'd shoot on the 4th of July and New Year's Eve," Bolden said. "He'd have company over and I'd hear the shots."
He said the family there kept to themselves, but he would see four or five children from the house riding bicycles occasionally.
"It's a pretty quiet neighborhood; nothing of this magnitude has ever happened here," Bolden said.
Rev. Keith Norman, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church on Broad Avenue, planned a prayer service for 8:00 a.m. Tuesday morning to lend support to the victims' families.
(CNN and the Associated Press contributed to this report.)
Stay with Action News 5 and wmctv.com for more on this developing story.
Este lunes, seis personas, incluyendo dos niños, fueron encontradas muertas en una casa de Memphis, Tennessee en los Estados Unidos. En la escena también encontrarón 3 niños, uno de siete años, una niña de diez meses y un infante de cuatro años, del cual aun no se ha reportado su sexo, que fueron enviados de urgencia al Centro medico infantil Le Bonheur. Dos fueron reportados en condiciones muy criticas, mientras el otro estaba en condiciones serias.

Todas las victimas tenían ocho disparos de escopeta o heridas de puñaladas, o ambas, y fueron encontradas en el mismo cuarto. Hasta ahora no esta claro como paso, pero un vecino de la cuadra diagonal al lugar de los hechos, dijo haber esuchado disparos de escopeta alrededor de las 8:30 p.m. de la noche del sábado. El asesino sigue suelto. "''Esto es una mancha en nuestra comunidad, y realmente necesitamos su ayuda,''" dijo hoy el teniente Joe Scott del Departamento de policia de Memphis en una rueda de prensa.