Man shoots daughter, wife in murder-suicide
A man whose wife and daughter were moving away from the Roslyn Heights home where they had been living apart from him for the past year shot them and his mother-in-law Friday before turning the gun on himself, Nassau police said, in a bloodbath that rocked a quiet neighborhood.
The man's estranged wife was the sole survivor of the shotgun blasts that took her daughter and mother, and then her husband, police said.
A neighbor, her hands still trembling in shock hours later, described hearing terrifying sounds as she walked by the street.
"I heard three shots," said Ambreen Saleen, who was on her way to a cafe shortly after noon. "I tried to go home and get my cell phone and dial 911. I'm shaking. It's terrible."
Mohamed Shojaeifard, 49, who lived elsewhere in Roslyn Heights, apparently shot his mother in-law, Batool Biraman, 66, of Greenvale, his daughter, Mandana Shojaeifard, 17, and his estranged wife, Haleh Mohseni, 40, who both lived in the same Elm Street house, police said.
Mohamed Shojaeifard then turned the shotgun on himself, they said.
He and Biraman were found dead at the scene. Mandana Shojaeifard was taken to Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, where she later died.
Haleh Mohseni was in serious but stable condition Friday night. Det. Lt. Richard Laursen said her wounds were not life-threatening.
The couple had been estranged for about a year, Laursen said, adding that witnesses reported an argument at the home earlier in the day. He said the husband returned later carrying a case that may have contained the shotgun.
Soon after the shooting, a relative of the victims ran past the police tape and screamed, "Oh, Jesus!" as police tried to comfort her.
Police blocked off the narrow street off Mineola Avenue as passersby looked at the home beyond the yellow tape.
Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey personally responded to the shootings. "It's very unusual that we have three, possibly four people shot dead," he said as he walked onto the crime scene.
Neighbors stood nearby in disbelief.
"I'm shocked that it would happen around here because we're pretty close around here," said Emanuel Elias, who said he lives on a nearby street. "Everybody's like family."
Saleen said she has lived in the area for 15 years but has never heard of such extreme violence there.
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