A woman and two children were killed in a triple homicide in Jersey City on Wednesday night, according to Mayor Steve Fulop.

Investigators say domestic violence led to the deaths of a woman and her two children whose bodies were found inside a Jersey City apartment.

As students filed into Jersey City schools Thursday morning, two of their classmates were missing after a rare triple homicide overnight that the mayor called an incident of domestic violence. A woman and her young children were killed in a stabbing in an apartment on Hutton Street near Liberty Avenue in the Jersey City Heights,