"I looked through my window and saw the body down there," neighbor Nick Gordon told the New York Post . "I saw the lady laying right there in front, and her head was across the street … I thought, 'Holy s---!' "
According to the Post, many neighbors initially believed the body they saw in the street was part of a Halloween prank until they touched it.
"I saw a head on the ground. And then I saw a body without a head," Jack Imperial, 41, who lives in Queens, tells PEOPLE. "It looked like it was a Halloween prank. I figured it was a hoax. I just hoped it was a hoax. It looked real."
NBC New York reported Wednesday that the deaths were being investigated as a murder-suicide.
Moreover, the station reported that law enforcement officials now believe that the victim was the mother of the man who decapitated her.
The body of the man, said to be in his 30s, was struck by a moving Long Island Rail Road train roughly 1,000 feet from the Farmingdale, New York, home of the woman, reported to be in her 60s.
"There was blood all over the floor," Gordon told the Post of the tragic scene. "You can see smears going down the stairs … as if somebody were pulling a body."
• With reporting by CAITLIN KEATING
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