BELLPORT, N.Y. (AP) - Police officers who had gone to a Long Island home to make a family notification about a man’s self-inflicted death after a traffic stop found two bodies at the residence, authorities said Tuesday.
The Suffolk County Police said an officer had pulled a car over in East Patchogue, New York, around 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Authorities said the car’s passenger got out and the driver left, crashing into a telephone pole a short time later.
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Officers approached, and saw that the driver had cut his throat, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Suffolk County detectives who went to a home in Bellport, New York, to tell next of kin found the bodies of a man and a woman.
The county medical examiner’s officer will determine the cause of death and the identities of the people.
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