A man, his wife and his sister-in-law were found murdered in their ransacked Queens home yesterday in what police believe were coldblooded executions, law enforcement sources said.
The ruthless slayings were discovered after the couple’s 13-year-old son came home from school at noon and found his aunt, Tisha Chambers, 21, lying face down in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor of the Cambria Heights house and no sign of his parents.
The panicked teen, Kadeen Chambers, ran to a neighbor for help, and the neighbor called 911.
Minutes later, cops found Kadeen’s parents, Carren Chambers, 36, and Larie Barnes, 40, lying face down on the basement floor, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head.
Investigators believe the killings may have been drug-related.
Their home at 236-18 120th Ave. had been ripped apart by the killer or killers, but not in a way consistent with a typical robbery, sources said.
“It was ransacked, but not drawers and closets. They ripped apart closets hidden in the eaves and other places . . . where people stash money and/or drugs,” one source noted.
One investigative theory is that the killers had their three Jamaica-born victims lie face down on the floor, pointed guns to their heads and demanded to know where money and drugs were hidden – and when they found out, they executed them.
Fueling their theory that the slayings were drug-related was the recent discovery of a large quantity of marijuana in a car used by Carren Chambers, sources said.
The car was seized two weeks ago in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, the area in which Larie Barnes owned a hardware store. Sources said no arrests have been made in that case.
Investigators also were checking into an unreported burglary last Friday at the Cambria Heights house in which $1,000 was taken, sources said. Friends of Kadeen Chambers said they believed local teenagers were responsible for the robbery.
In addition to Kadeen, the couple had a 5-year-old daughter, who was at preschool when the murders were discovered. Carren Chambers also had a 16-year-old son by a previous marriage.