A man fatally shot a woman in the head before turning the gun on himself during a murder-suicide in Brooklyn, according to police.
Officers responding to a 911 call at 4:45 p.m. Friday at a first-floor apartment on Logan Street, near Etna Street in Cypress Hills, found Luz Espinal, 43, and the 40-year-old man both with gunshot wounds to their heads, police said. A gun was recovered near the dead man, cops said.
“It looks like a murder-suicide,” an NYPD spokesman said Saturday afternoon, noting an autopsy would still be performed.
The identity of the gunman is being withheld pending family notification, the spokesman said.
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Espinal was a former home care aide and mother to two grown sons and a 7-year-old girl, who was living in the first-floor apartment where the bloodshed occurred, according to neighbors and the building’s super.
They claimed Espinal recently started dating a man who was “very controlling” — to the point that he made her scrub all her social media.