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Dondre Samuel (Source: Facebook)

A 19-year-old Kingsborough Community College student was the lone survivor at the scene of an apparent double murder and suicide perpetrated by his mother, an NYPD officer,  in their Flatlands home yesterday.

Officer Rosette Samuel, a 13-year veteran of the NYPD who had never discharged her firearm in the line of duty, is believed to have fatally shot her boyfriend, their one-year-old son and then herself. A second son from a previous relationship, the 19-year-old student, fled out the back window when he was awoken by gunshots and called 911.

From the New York Post:

A cop who had worked with Samuel in the Manhattan traffic division before Samuel transferred to the 108th Precinct in Long Island City in January, said, “This is unbelievable.”

“She was tight with everyone here. It wasn’t her. Sometimes people snap,” that cop said. “Post-partum depression is the first thing that came to my mind. Didn’t show any signs of it.”

… The killings occurred just before 8:30 a.m. in Samuel’s first-floor apartment on E. 56th St. near Farragut Road in Flatlands.

Witnesses said they saw Samuel’s 19-year-old son Dondre Samuel, a biology student at Kingsborough Community College, frantically climbing out of the back window of that apartment wearing a pair of shorts and no shirt, just an Addidas jacket.

“He was shaken up,” said Anthony Beckford, 19. “My uncle asked what happened . . . he was all scraped up and he ran into the backyard. His elbows and his knees were scraped. He said, ‘Look, look!’”

“He was frantic. He couldn’t really talk,” Beckford said of Dondre, who is Samuel’s son from a prior relationship.

When Beckford looked at the front of the apartment, near the front door, he saw the body of Samuel’s boyfriend Peters, lying on the floor.

“I just the his head, and the top part of his body,” Beckford said. “He was facing down, surrounded by blood.”

Samuel’s body was found in bed, along with the one-year-old son.

Metro reports that a possible suicide note was found at the scene:

The source paraphrased Rosette Samuel’s note as saying, “Sorry I had to do this. I’m going to take Dylan with me because I can’t bear it alone,” referring to her 1-year-old son.

It also referenced a sum of money in a deferred compensation plan and specified it should be used for the college education of her other son, 19-year-old Dondre Samuel.

Cops reportedly found a sealed envelope as well. The contents are currently unknown.

Nostrand Houses (Source: Wikipedia Commons)

If you saw heavy police activity turn up near 2986 Avenue V at around 2:30 p.m. today, the answer is no, it wasn’t another violent incident in the Sheepshead-Nostrand Housing Projects.

It was just an elevator repairman.

NYPD converged on the scene, aided by hostage negotiators and Emergency Service Unites, after a neighbor called 911 to report what appeared to be a man poised to jump from the roof of the building.

Once the authorities showed up, however, it became clear that it was an elevator repairman, working on the building’s constantly problematic elevator system.

Detectives examine the body in an alley next to the day care.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: While putting out a fire at 2281 Ocean Parkway, firefighters discovered a man who appears to have shot himself in the head.

According to an FDNY EMT on the scene, it appeared the man sparked a fire in the building’s third floor attic before turning a gun on himself.

An acquaintance of the victim was on the scene and told Sheepshead Bites that a forced change in his living situation had recently put the victim in a tough spot.

“I knew he was upset about having to move,” the acquaintance said. “I didn’t think he would do anything like this.”

Another friend of the victim refused to talk to Sheepshead Bites, but noted, “He was a good guy. He wasn’t a bad guy at all; he was a good guy.”

Neighbors said a man in his mid-40s has lived at the location for several years, above ABC Plus Day Care and a gastroenterologist’s office.

The day care center was closed for the holidays, and the EMT said no one else was in the building.

Police have not yet confirmed that it was a suicide, as homicide detectives examined the body behind a white sheet in an alley beside the building.

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A 30-year-old man appears to have taken his own life on the sands of Brighton Beach this morning, having shot himself in the head.

According to police, who arrived on the scene shortly after 9:00 a.m., the victim was a white male who died of a single gunshot wound to the head in an “apparent suicide.” The medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death.

The victim was declared dead when police arrived on the beach at Brighton 14th Street.

Todd Maisel, a Daily News photographer, got to the scene around the same time as police. On Twitter, Maisel wrote that it appeared he had burned papers before shooting himself with a handgun. Police could not confirm either of those details to Sheepshead Bites.

The former storefront of Bauer Comfort (left), Gorbach (top) and Sergatiouk (bottom)

Former partners of a Sheepshead Bay-based business are dead after one of the partners killed the other on Saturday, then turned the gun on himself. Their business relationship, which soured two years ago, is believed to be the primary motive.

Aleksandr Gorbach’s wife and children watched Gorbach, 43, bleed to death Saturday evening by a shotgun blast to the chest delivered by former business partner Mikhail Sergatiouk.

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UPDATE (5:18 p.m.): We hit the scene and it looked like the victim had been transported to the hospital. We overheard authorities having a conversation that led us to believe the victim survived. We are awaiting confirmation from the authorities.

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Emergency responders are on the scene of a possible suicide on East 19th Street, off of Avenue U.

Fire department officials are already at the location and providing CPR to the victim. Police are en route, according to reports coming over the police scanner.

The means of the suicide is not yet known. The victim was inside his apartment at the time of the incident.

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The New York Post has reported that an 83-year-old man is in critical condition after he “apparently jumped out of a window.”

While the exact cause is unknown, the senior allegedly defenestrated himself a few minutes after midnight, April 23, from one of the windows of 2565 Haring Street (reported in The Post as “Hering Street in Sheepshead Bay” [Update: Neighbors are now telling us that, contrary to the Post's report, the address was actually 2465]), down the block from the P.S. K811 Connie Lekas School at 2525 Haring Street, and directly across the street from the Avenue Z parking lot attached to the Nostrand Avenue strip mall.

FDNY officials say that the octogenarian went into cardiac arrest after allegedly jumping and was taken to Coney Island Hospital. No further information was available at press time.

Source: Epoch Times

A woman is presumed dead after she leaped into the path of a Coney Island-bound Q train at Kings Highway train station yesterday evening.

In an apparent suicide attempt, an unidentified woman stepped in front of the train around 6:30 p.m. Onlookers screamed as the train approached.

“I saw the jump … and pulled the emergency stop … but …,” the conductor told the Epoch Times.

NYPD, FDNY and emergency workers arrived and asked all passengers to exit the train and the platform.

The train remained in the station until at least 7:38 p.m., at which time the rescue workers had still been unable to find or assess the condition of the woman.

[via Epoch Times]