Queens, NY: A Jamaican man appears to have shot and killed his wife and two daughters and then turned the gun on himself in the Rosedale section of Queens yesterday. Police sources think this may be an apparent murder-suicide. A note was left behind apologising for the gruesome crime, sources reported.
Cops discovered the four bodies at 145-20 230th Place in Springfield Gardens after the father, Mark Bailey, a bus driver in Nassau County, shot his family in their bedrooms, police said.
Bailey was found in chair in the main room. All four had gunshot wounds to the head with a 9mm pistol. A note was also found in the kitchen, where Baily wrote, I am sorry. Love, Mark, according to police sources.
His wife, Dionne, 42, was an assistant principal at Philip Randolph High School.
One daughter, 19-year-old Yonique, was a student at Stony Brook University and the other, 14-year-old Yolon, was a student at Cardozo High School. The family moved to this country from Jamaica nearly 20 years ago.
Jamaican political activist in the 31st congressional district in Queens, Michael Duncan expressed his condolences on the incident. This is a very horrible and very sad tragedy, Duncan said, but he also cautioned residents in the area to await the outcome of the investigations.
This incident comes on the heels of another Caribbean-related tragedy when a Grenadian woman lost her baby when the childs father threw the baby in a New Jersey river last week