Police investigating possible link between two Buffalo deaths

According to the report, authorities said the victims — a 24-year-old woman who died after being stabbed during an apparent domestic dispute and a 24-year-old man found dead after a fire shortly afterward — knew each other.

Officers responded shortly after 3:30 a.m. to a call about a stabbing in the 700 block of Ashland Avenue, near Bird Avenue, in the Elmwood Village neighborhood, DeGeorge said.

They found a woman who had been stabbed and slashed. She was taken by ambulance to Erie County Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead.

The fire call came in just before 4 a.m. at 62 Dash St., near South Park Avenue in South Buffalo. DeGeorge said the fire started on the first floor and the man, who lived at that address, was found dead in a back bedroom on the first floor. Autopsies will be performed to determine the causes of both deaths, DeGeorge noted.

One firefighter was injured and transported to ECMC for treatment. Homicide and arson investigators are determining the cause of the fire. Damage was estimated at $150,000.