Female cop kills boyfriend, baby in Brooklyn before killing self: police
~~By Thomas Tracy , Rocco Parascandola , Edgar Sandoval AND Ginger Adams Otis
A 19-year-old son escaped and called police. Cops now investigating the grisly East Flatbush shooting.
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| Dondre Samuel, 19, seen leaving the 63rd precinct yesterday. The son of Officer Rosette Samuel, Dondre was able to escape out a window while his mother killed her boyfriend and younger son as well as herself. |
She even killed killed the baby.
An off-duty cop shot her longtime boyfriend to death in Brooklyn on Monday, just hours before he was scheduled to fly to Guyana. Then, in an act of unimaginable cruelty, Officer Rosette Samuel trained a 9-mm. Glock handgun on the couple’s year-old son and shot him in the chest.
The boyfriend, identified by relatives as 33-year-old Dason Peters, was the first to die. His body was found facedown, covered in blood, in a hallway near the front door.
An off-duty cop shot her longtime boyfriend to death in Brooklyn on Monday, just hours before he was scheduled to fly to Guyana. Then, in an act of unimaginable cruelty, Officer Rosette Samuel trained a 9-mm. Glock handgun on the couple’s year-old son and shot him in the chest.
The boyfriend, identified by relatives as 33-year-old Dason Peters, was the first to die. His body was found facedown, covered in blood, in a hallway near the front door.
Cops found Samuel, 43, in the bed, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her dead baby, Dylan Samuel Peters, was to her immediate left. Her gun — a weapon for use while off duty — was found on her right side.
Police also found a bullet in the baby’s crib.
Samuel, who joined the force in 2000 and was assigned to the 108th Precinct in Queens, wasn’t under extreme work-related stress, sources said.
Police also found a bullet in the baby’s crib.
Samuel, who joined the force in 2000 and was assigned to the 108th Precinct in Queens, wasn’t under extreme work-related stress, sources said.
Investigators are trying to determine if her boyfriend’s travel plans may have sparked an argument that ended in the double-murder-suicide.
“There’s no love left in the world when a mother can put the barrel of a gun to her own baby and pull the trigger,” said Sheryl Potter, who lives nearby.
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| A female police officer shot and killed her boyfriend and 1-year-old boy in her home in Flatbush, Brooklyn this morning. Her cousin Jeffrey Joseph, cries over the deaths. |
Samuel’s 19-year-old son, Dondre Samuel, told police he was in the apartment on E. 56th St. at the time. He woke up around 7 a.m. and spoke to his mother. Then he went back to sleep.
He was later awakened by an argument between his mother and her boyfriend. The teen told police his mother appeared to be hiding a gun under her armpit. Peters was standing and nursing a wound to the midsection.
Rosette Samuel told Dondre to go back into his bedroom. At about 8:20 a.m., he said, he climbed out a window and jumped about 5 feet to the backyard. He ran up an alley and met cops at the front of the house.
He was later awakened by an argument between his mother and her boyfriend. The teen told police his mother appeared to be hiding a gun under her armpit. Peters was standing and nursing a wound to the midsection.
Rosette Samuel told Dondre to go back into his bedroom. At about 8:20 a.m., he said, he climbed out a window and jumped about 5 feet to the backyard. He ran up an alley and met cops at the front of the house.
“He was frantic,” neighbor Anthony Beckford, 18, said of Dondre. “His knees and elbows were scraped, bloodily. He couldn’t really talk. He was running for his life.”
The teen was wearing boxer shorts and a shirt, witnesses said.
Dondre told police his mother had been arguing all night with Peters. Police sources said Samuel called the 108th Precinct stationhouse to say she was going to be late for her shift that morning.
The teen was wearing boxer shorts and a shirt, witnesses said.
Dondre told police his mother had been arguing all night with Peters. Police sources said Samuel called the 108th Precinct stationhouse to say she was going to be late for her shift that morning.
Courtesy: NY Daily News
