A man shot the mother of his child and two of her daughters dead inside a Brooklyn apartment before turning the gun on himself, police said.
The victims were shot shortly after 11pm Monday in an apartment in the Van Dyke Houses in the Brownsville neighborhood, police said.
Officers went to the apartment after a nine-year-old girl called 911 to report a shooting, a police spokesperson said.
The officers found a 45-year-old woman, a 20-year-old woman and a teenage girl, whose age was not immediately clear, dead from gunshot wounds.
A man shot the mother of his child and two of her daughters dead inside the Van Dyke Houses (pictured) in Brooklyn before turning the gun on himself, police said
The victims were shot shortly after 11pm Monday in an apartment in the Brownsville neighborhood, police said. Officers went to the apartment after a nine-year-old girl called 911 to report a shooting, a police spokesperson said
A 46-year-old man was found shot to death in a nearby walkway area of 563 Mother Gaston Boulevard, police said.
Police said the man was found with a gunshot wound to the head, believed to be self-inflicted.
Police believe the man shot the women and the teenager and then shot himself. Two guns were recovered near his body.
The man and the 45-year-old woman were the parents of the nine-year-old who called 911, police said.
The officers found a 45-year-old woman, a 20-year-old woman and a teenage girl, whose age was not immediately clear, dead from gunshot wounds. Officers at the scene of the shootings on Monday night
The two younger victims were the 45-year-old woman’s daughters with a different father, police (pictured at the scene on Monday) said
The two younger victims were the 45-year-old woman’s daughters with a different father, they said.
‘It’s just a terrible situation all around,’ Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said on TV station NY1 on Tuesday.
An NYPD spokesperson told the DailyMail.com Tuesday morning that the identities of the deceased are still pending proper family notification.
Police have also not determined a motive for the shootings.
The investigation is still ongoing at this time.