Monday, August 26, 2024-Five people were killed in a mrder-suicide horror in a home in Nassau County on Sunday, August 25, days after the family’s matriarch died and kin were set to sell the house.
All of the victims were shot dead in
the home on Wyoming Court in Syosset, while the gunman, believed to be the son
who lived at the home with his late mother, killed himself on the front
lawn, Newsday said.
“The mom just died, and they were
selling the house,” said Mary Macaluso, a local real estate agent, noting she
was supposed to meet the relatives at the home around noon, but that
authorities had closed the street by the time she arrived.
“The kids were all here for the funeral, and they asked me to come to look at the house,’’ Macaluso told the outlet.
She said one of the children had asked her to meet with the family so they’d know what to do before listing the home, which was estimated to be worth nearly $900,000 on Zillow.
They wanted it done quickly, too,
because two of the family members had come up from Florida for the funeral and
were headed back soon, she said.
The homeowner, identified through
public records as Theresa Martha DeLucia, d!ed early last week at the age of
95, according to her obituary.
“It appears to be a murder-suicide,”
Patrick Ryder, the commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department, told
Newsday at the scene.
“We do know that the subject on the front
lawn did shoot and kill himself.”
Ryder later told News12 that
investigators believe DeLucia’s adult son who lived in the house was upset over
circumstances surrounding its impending sale and killed four people inside the
home and then himself.
A neighbor who lived across the street from
the mother and son told The Post that the man suffered from mental health
issues and was distraught over his mother’s death and losing the house where he
lived his whole life.
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