UPDATE 5 PM: Police have arrested and charged Lewis Kerry, 46, with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the slashing death of two people inside a Warwick Street home.
Authorities say the group approached a 24-year-old man on the subway platform of the 36th Street station and began punching him before fleeing with his phone.
The victims, a 91-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman, were discovered brutally killed inside a two-story home at 186 Warwick St. in Cypress Hills at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday.