The prosecutor's office is investigating the deaths of the 7-months-old girls.
LINDENWOLD -- When a dispatcher answered the 911 call from a borough mother Wednesday morning, the only sound on the other end of the line was hysterical sobbing.
Eventually, she was able to get out through the sobs, "My twins are like purple...I can't...They're not breathing!"
The frantic woman told the dispatcher that she found the twins sleeping on their stomach and had turned them over to try CPR, but it hadn't worked.
"I tried. They're not breathing at all," she managed.
The Camden County prosecutor's office confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the two 7-month-old girls were pronounced dead via telemetry at approximately 8:30 a.m. Authorities were on scene at the apartment in The Pines on Bilper Avenue throughout the morning.
"The cause and manner of death are pending further testing by the Camden County Medical Examiner," the prosecutor's office said in a release.
Neighbors at the apartment complex said they saw authorities remove two small body bags from the apartment, and one man said he saw the sobbing mother exit with police and get into a police car.
In her 911 call, the woman told the dispatcher that a friend was with her in the apartment.
Tasia Mayweather, a friend of the twins' father, told the Courier-Post that he got the call about his children Wednesday morning and asked a friend for a ride to the apartment. The twins were already dead, Mayweather told the newspaper, and the father didn't relay any information about what may have caused their deaths.
Alice Shields, a neighbor, said she regularly saw the woman and her twins, as well as her young son. She bumped into them a few days ago and all seemed well, she said.
She believed the woman's mother lived at the apartment as well, while another neighbor told the Courier-Post that the grandmother came often to help care for the children.
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