A man shot his girlfriend to death, and then fired at cops before he killed himself in an apparent murder-suicide in Washington Heights early this morning, law-enforcement sources said.
Police were trying to enter the locked apartment building on Audubon Avenue, near West 174th Street, after a 911 call for gunshots in a residence about 1:20 a.m., when Sergio Azcona, 29, allegedly fired his handgun at them, then fled inside the building, law-enforcement sources said. No officers were hit.
When Emergency Service Unit officers arrived and forced open the door, cops found Azcona on the first floor, with a gunshot wound to his head, sources said. EMS rushed him to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition, but he died at 7:30 a.m., law-enforcement sources said. His weapon was recovered from the scene.
Cops then found a 26-year-old woman, whose name was withheld pending family notification, shot in the head in Azcona’s fourth-floor apartment, where gunshots had been heard, sources said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim had previously secured two orders of protection against Azcona, law enforcement sources said.
Azcona’s family arrived at the building about 3 a.m., and a woman who identified herself as his mother began screaming and sobbing. “Oh my God,” she wailed, holding her head and staggering.
A compilation of daily news articles from around the United States about deaths (including both people and animals) that appear to occur in the context of a past or present intimate relationship, focusing on 2009-present. (NOTE: this blog is limited to incidents that appear in the media and are captured by our search terms. We recognize this is not an exhaustive portrayal of all deaths resulting from intimate violence.) When is society going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?
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