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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

NJ - Baby among 4 dead as husband goes berserk

HORROR HOUSE: Police cordon off the area around home on a quiet Bayonne street where a madman unleashed a fusillade of bullets last night

A New Jersey man shot and killed three people — including an infant — before turning the gun on himself last night, authorities said.

A fifth victim was wounded in the one-family home on quiet Avenue A in Bayonne. He was rushed to the hospital in stable condition, sources said.

There also were two kids in the home — including a 10-year-old girl — but neither was harmed, according to the sources, who added that all the victims lived at the address.

“It was a bloodbath in there,” said one official.

Neighbors said the killer came for his estranged wife, and they heard a woman screaming followed by at least seven shots.

“The husband tried to get inside the house and the men were holding him back trying to calm him down,” said a neighbor, Mary Strugala.

“And the husband lost his mind and shot her and everyone else,” she said.

Antonio Nardini said he saw a terrified girl running from the horrific scene.

“We heard her screaming. It’s unbelievable,” said Nardini, 59.

“I saw a girl running down the block. She looked so bloody and disheveled. She had blood running down her arms,” the retired Bayonne narcotics detective told The Post.

“She was screaming, just shrieking and screaming in Spanish. She was yelling she needed her cellphone.”

The violence unfolded at 7:35 p.m. on the usually peaceful block.

“I heard four shots and then it stopped, and then I heard screaming and then three more shots,” Has Jones, 30, told the Newark Star-Ledger.

Neighbors called 911, but by the time cops arrived, it was too late.

“It was mayhem. They had SWAT teams come in with shields to enter the residence and they yelled for everyone to stay inside our homes,” Nardini said.

Officials did not release the names or ages of the victims. They were also not immediately able to say why the killer erupted.

The bloodshed stunned neighbors.

Angelo Ortega, 63, told the Star-Ledger that every morning, he walks his dog by the house and speaks with a man who lives there. He described him as “tranquil.”

Joyce Hudak said the family had moved in about a year or so and “had a few barbeques during the summer.”

Jilen Lopez, 37, said, “I’ve never seen something like that around here. It’s always quiet around this town.



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