Gloversville police and the district attorney's office this morning refused to speculate on the reasons that led to a shootout at a Grove Street residence last night which left a 48-year-old man and 15-year-old boy dead and another youth critically wounded.

Police identified the dead as:

Guy P. Gentile, 48, of 44 Grove St., where the shooting occurred.

Andrew Klingbbeil, 15, of 12 North Street, an eighth-grader at the Estee Middle School.

Both apparently died of massive gunshot wounds to the chest. However, the official cause of death will not be known until an autopsy report is filed with the DA's office.

Kevin Johnson, 15, of 38 Temple St. remained in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Littauer Hospital where he was placed after undergoing an operation for gunshot wounds.

William Whipple, a Fulton County coroner, pronounced the two males dead where they lay in the living room of the first-floor apartment last night. Autopsies he ordered to be performed, were scheduled for sometime today in the Albany Medical Center.

Police also have not been able to talk with the Johnson youth regarding the events leading up to the shooting.

Authorities have said that the shootings occurred shortly before 8 last night in the living room of the two-story wood-frame house. Police quizzed residents on the street, but reportedly neighbors heard nothing. The second floor apartment of the building is vacant.

According to DiMaio, at 8:04 police received a call from Harold E. Wheaton, 43 Grove St., who reported the shooting. Wheaton also called an ambulance.

According to the scant details released, the wounded Johnson youth left the Gentile house carrying the 20-gauge automatic shotgun believed used in the shooting and went across the street to Wheaton's home, asking him for help and to call police.

When plainclothes and uniformed officers arrived at the scene, upon entry they found a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson snubnose revolver lying on the living room floor.