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Cathleen Freemantle was sobbing openly as she listened to speakers at a vigil in Brownsville outside the Van Dyke Houses, describing the horrific triple homicide that took place earlier in the week.
She did not know Joseph McCrimon, 46, the man who gunned down his girlfriend Rasheeda Barzey and her two older daughters, sparing the life of the child Barzey and McCrimon had together, a little girl who was celebrating her ninth birthday that day. The domestic violence incident comes amid an increase in gun violence across the city.
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A Westchester County man who gunned down three people and then killed himself on his 9-year-old daughter s birthday had a violent past.
The killings were discovered around 11:22 p.m., Monday, April 5, when New York City Police responded to a 911 call of shots fired/possible people shot at 362 Sutter Ave., in Brownsville, Brooklyn, said NYPD Detective Annette Shelton.
When police arrived on the scene, they found three women inside the apartment dead from gunshot wounds, the NYPD said.
NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said Tuesday, April 6 the child made the call to 911.
“She was just calling 911, you know, if you can imagine, it’s horrific, the 911, saying, ‘Daddy was coming over for my birthday, and he shot people,’ ” Essig said of the little girl.
Updated on April 7, 2021 at 3:47 am
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A 45-year-old mother and two of her daughters were shot dead by the father of her youngest child after he came to the Brooklyn apartment to celebrate the birthday of the little girl the two shared, police and other officials said Tuesday.
It was their child who was apparently about to turn 9 or just did who called 911 late Monday to report the death of her mom and two older sisters at the hand of her father in Brownsville, the NYPD said. The sisters, one in her early 20s, the other in her teens, had a different father by the same mother, officials have said.
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