Man Kills Brother, Himself In UWS Murder-Suicide, Police Say

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A man hung himself after stabbing his brother to death inside their shared Upper West Side apartment in a public housing complex, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

Officers conducting a Monday night wellness check at a fifteenth-floor apartment of a building in the Frederick Douglass Houses complex found 65-year-old Paul Horton suffering stab wounds to his hands and head and his 60-year-old brother was found hanging from the apartment ceiling, police said. Medics pronounced both men dead at the scene, police said.

Police declared Horton's death a homicide on Tuesday morning. The city medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death for each man, but investigators are treating the incident as a likely murder-suicide, police said.

The identity of the 60-year-old man has not been disclosed by police pending family notification.