NYPD officer, son dead in apparent East Flatbush double murder-suicide
A New York City police officer shot her 1-year-old son, the baby’s father and then herself in an apparent double murder-suicide at her Flatbush home Monday morning, police said.
The bodies were discovered after her 19-year-old son, who was sleeping in his bedroom, heard an argument between the two adults and saw his mother with a gun, said chief police spokesman Paul Browne. The young man escaped through a window and called 911, but by the time police arrived moments later, the three others were dead, Browne said.
The body of the 33-year-old father, Dason Peters, was found in the entry of the first-floor apartment on a quiet, tree-lined street in Flatlands, authorities said. The bodies of Rosette Samuel, 43, and her baby boy, Dylan, were found face up on the bed in her bedroom.