Five people were killed in a horrific murder-suicide on New York’s Long Island that reportedly happened just before a family was scheduled to meet with a real estate agent to sell the home of a recently deceased woman.
Nassau County police responded around noon Sunday to a home on Wyoming Court in Syosset, about 30 miles east of New York City.
Authorities said officers responded to the home to find the shooter outside, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and four other victims dead inside.
Police did not immediately identify the victim.
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This July 2012 image shows 76 Wyoming Court in Syosset, New York. (Google)
Local real estate agent Mary Macaluso told a local newspaper: Newsday is She was to meet with relatives at the address to discuss the sale of the house following the death of the woman who owned it and was the head of the family.
“My kids are all here for the funeral and they asked me to come and see the house,” she told the paper, with one of her siblings requesting a visitation while other relatives were in town from Florida for the funeral, according to the report.
Fox News Digital reached out to Macaluso for comment on Sunday but could not immediately be reached.
According to records and online obituaries, 95-year-old Teresa Martha DeLucia was the facility’s most recent resident and was buried last week, Newsday reported.
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The online obituary was no longer available online as of Sunday evening.
A couple who live nearby told FOX 5 New York that the suspect is in his 60s and recently lost his mother, who is in her 90s.
The couple said the son and his mother had lived in the neighborhood for years.
“I never thought he would take his whole family, his siblings. I thought he was distraught and maybe he only did this to himself,” a neighbour told the local station.
“It’s just heartbreaking. This is a very quiet little neighborhood that used to be known as a commuter town. It’s shocking,” another neighbor told FOX 5.
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The home had not yet been listed for sale, but real estate website Zillow estimated its value at about $900,000.
Other homes in the neighborhood have sold for nearly $1 million, according to the site.
