A man fatally shot a woman in the head before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide in Brooklyn, police said.
At 4:45 p.m. Friday, officers responding to a 911 call at a first-floor apartment on Logan Street near Etna Street in Cypress Hills found Luz Espinal, 43, with a gunshot wound to the head. A 40-year-old man was found. said the police. Police said a gun was recovered near the deceased man.
“It appears to be a murder-suicide,” an NYPD spokesperson said Saturday afternoon, adding that an autopsy would be performed.
The identity of the shooter is not being released pending notification of family members, a spokesperson said.
Espinal, a former home care aide and mother of two adult sons and a 7-year-old girl, lived on the first floor of the apartment where the bloodshed occurred, according to neighbors and the building’s supermarket.
They claimed Espinal had recently started dating a man who was “very controlling” to the point where he made her scrub all of her social media.
“It’s very sad. We are all like a family in this building,” coach Santos Araujo lamented, adding that Espinal was “a very happy woman” but that the man “seemed antisocial.” …I never liked the man. He wasn’t friendly, he was weird.”
Araujo said Espinal left her daughter at school on Friday and Espinal’s sister called her from the Dominican Republic and asked if she wanted to come check on her. [Espinal] Because she couldn’t “contact” him.
Neither Araujo nor his wife could find the woman when they knocked on the front door of Espinal’s apartment, but they could hear her dog crying inside.
“I told my wife that something didn’t look very good. Then she said my son was coming over. He came to the window and that’s how I found out about the situation. It’s very sad. They called the police,” Araujo said.
He added that the couple had only been together for a few months, noting that she was no longer the “very happy woman” she used to be, singing karaoke in her apartment.
“She was very popular. After she met this guy, she changed a lot,” said Espinal, who usually loved playing music but realized in December that she no longer played music. said the super.
A small memorial was placed near the victims’ apartments and lit with candles on Saturday.
