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A charred note with the words ‘am sorry’ was discovered Friday in the torched apartment where investigators suspect a teenager killed his mother and siblings before committing suicide, police said.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the note, with only fragments of words and sentences legible, was found with a melted butane lighter in the Staten Island home. It was being analyzed to determine who wrote it and if it had any significance.

The bodies of Leisa Jones and three of her children were found in their torched apartment early Thursday. Her fourth child, a 2-year-old boy, was pulled out alive but died later.

Investigators were trying to determine how Jones and her son died.

Autopsies performed Friday on the pair were inconclusive, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner. The inquiries confirmed two young girls found in the house died of neck wounds. Police said their throats were slit. An autopsy on 2-year-old Jermaine Sinclarie determined he died of smoke inhalation and burns.

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Police said the teenager’s throat appeared to have been cut, and investigators theorized the deaths were the result of a murder-suicide committed by the boy, who had a history of playing with fire.

Investigators haven’t ruled out the possibility that the mother was the killer.

The girls’ bodies were found along with that of their mother and the 2-year-old in the front room of the family’s second-floor apartment.

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