By Erika Hernandez
26 Aug 2024, 1:29 PM EDT
Authorities reported that a Murder-suicide on Long Island, New York, which left five people dead and it reportedly happened before a family met with a real estate agent to sell the home of a recently deceased woman.
Nassau County police arrived at the home on Wyoming Court in Syosset around noon Sunday, about 30 miles east of New York City.
Responding officers found the gunman outside the building, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to authorities. Four other victims were found dead inside the home.
Police did not immediately identify the victims.
According to Patrick Ryder, commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department, “it appears to be a murder-suicide.”
Mary Macaluso, a local real estate agent, told local newspaper Newsday that He was supposed to meet with a group of relatives at the address to discuss the sale of the house. after the death of its owner and the matriarch of the family.
“All the kids were here for the funeral and they asked me to come see the house,” he told the paper. One of the brothers had reportedly asked for the meeting while other relatives were in town from Florida for the funeral.
Records and an online obituary show that Theresa Martha DeLucia, 95, is the home’s most recent resident and was buried last week, Newsday reported.
The online obituary was no longer visible online as of Sunday evening.
A couple who live in the neighborhood told FOX 5 New York that the suspected gunman was in his 60s and had recently lost his mother, who was in her 90s.
The couple said the son and mother had been living in the neighborhood for years.
“I didn’t think that… he would take his whole family, his brothers. I thought maybe he was distraught and that he did it to himself,” the neighbor told the local station.
“This is really heartbreaking. This is such a quiet neighborhood, they used to call it a bedroom community. It’s shocking,” another neighbor told FOX 5.
The house had not yet been put up for sale, but real estate website Zillow estimated its value at nearly $900,000.
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