A Port Authority cop shot his elderly mom and sister before turning the gun on himself in the family’s Bronx apartment in an apparent botched double murder-suicide, police and law enforcement sources said.
Mario Garcia, 55, and his older sister Maria Garcia, 59, were both found dead with gunshot wounds, cops said, while the alleged shooter’s 86-year-old mother was also found clinging to life.
The bodies were both found with head wounds when cops responded just before 8 a.m. to a 911 call for multiple shots fired inside a co-op building on Johnson Avenue in Spuyten Duyvil, authorities and sources said.
Cop Mario Garcia was identified as the person who opened fire on his sister and mother.
Two people were killed, and an elderly woman was left clinging to life in an apparent botched double murder-suicide in the Bronx Thursday morning, cops and law enforcement sources said. Matthew McDermott“It’s a terrible shock,” one neighbor, Jane Burbank, told The Post. “I don’t understand what happened with the brother. I don’t get it at all.
“She was a wonderful person,” she said of Maria Garcia. “She was full of life, she loved to dance. She loved to get people together.”
Another tenant called the tragedy “horrifying.”
Maria Garcia was identified as Mario Garcia’s sister. She was killed in the shooting. Obtained by NYPost“The most crime that’s ever happened in this building was a robbery,” they said. “I would never expect a murder suicide to happen here, ever.”
The elderly woman suffered a gunshot wound to the face, cops said. She was rushed to Harlem Hospital in critical but stable condition.
Maria Garcia was discovered lying in bed and was pronounced dead at the scene, cops and sources said.
Two bodies are removed from 2500 Johnson Ave., Bronx, after an alleged domestic violence shooting occurred, leaving two dead and one in critical condition. Matthew McDermottAlleged gunman Mario Garcia was found in the hallway outside the apartment alongside two handguns on his lap and with a self-inflicted head wound. He was also declared dead by EMS.
A victim’s body is being transported. Matthew McDermott
An NYPD vehicle was parked at the scene on Johnson Avenue. Matthew McDermottInvestigators believe the man fired at his relatives and then turned the weapon on himself, the sources said.
Officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey declined to comment on the shooting, and referred questions to the NYPD.
