Off-Duty Officer Killed Boyfriend, Their Year-Old Son and Then Herself, Police Say

[The Straight Story]

To those on the outside, the couple seemed content, spending time together on a quiet block in Brooklyn, working at solid city-paid jobs and delighting in their infant son.

Almost certainly there was nothing so outwardly amiss between them that it could have foretold the crime that unfolded on Monday morning inside the woman’s apartment on East 56th Street, in the Flatlands neighborhood.

Investigators said the woman, an off-duty police officer identified by family and friends as Rosette M. Samuel, fatally shot her boyfriend and their 1-year-old son before killing herself, the police said.

The officer’s 19-year-old son escaped; he fled through a bedroom window after hearing gunshots, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/nyregion/officer-killed-boyfriend-and-son-in-murder-suicide-police-say.html

[SpartanDem]

1. Wow you usually don't see many stories of women taking out the entire family.

[LittleBlue]

2. Must have been mentally ill or something

Awful. Wonder what the 19-year-old boy will do now that his whole family is dead.

[Archae]

3. Now if this woman had been armed...wait a minute...

Think the NRA will even acknowledge this incident?

[The Straight Story]

4. She was a cop, the only ones some want to trust with guns

so I doubt they will mention it.