MIAMI (AP) _ Police are investigating after a neighbor found a 29-year-old woman and her two young daughters dead inside their home near Miami.
Miami-Dade detective Roy Rutland told The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/XEqx6h) the neighbor smelled an odor Tuesday and went inside the house to find its source.
There, she found Gladys Machado in a closet. Machado’s daughters, 4-year-old Daniela Padrino and 8-year-old Julia Padrino, were next to her.
Police say the woman’s 6-year-old son was safe with his grandmother.
Friends and family members _ including the children’s father _ gathered outside the home Tuesday as police continued their investigation.
Neighbors told the newspaper that Machado lived with a boyfriend who had recently been released from jail.
Police have not released the manner of death.
No further details were immediately available.
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