Autopsies on three patients who died within an hour of one another on the same floor of a Brooklyn nursing home uncovered nothing suspicious, cops said yesterday.
But investigators said they would await toxicology reports before dismissing the deaths as just an eerie coincidence.
Police on Thursday were called to the New Carlton Rehab and Nursing Center in Fort Greene by paramedics who had grown suspicious.
Edubigus Alvarez, 77, Augustine Sandoval, 72, and Monte Johnson, 61, had been found dead in separate rooms on the third floor.
The Medical Examiner’s Office told police that all three had been seriously ill and appeared to have died from natural causes.
But the police still treated the nursing home as a crime scene because, a police source said, the chances of three people dying at the same time in one place were considered too slim to be coincidental.