Drugs Suspected in Triple Slaying

A dispute over drugs was the possible motive in the execution-style slayings of three people in a Van Nuys apartment last weekend, Los Angeles police detectives said Wednesday.

Police said the target of the attack was parolee Shane Wilson, 31, who was found Saturday bound and beaten to death in his apartment on Hayvenhurst Avenue.

The killer or killers came after Wilson in a dispute possibly over drugs, Los Angeles Police Det. Adrian Soler said Wednesday.

Also found in the apartment were the bodies of Nicole Jones, 20, who was identified by a neighbor as Wilson’s live-in girlfriend, and Shelini Kashyap, 29, a fifth-grade teacher at Live Oak Elementary School in Castaic.

The women died of gunshot wounds to the head and the man died of a blunt-force injury to the head, coroner’s officials said.

Detectives said it appeared that Kashyap was just a visitor at the apartment.