An elderly man, 57, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Queens home alongside the body of an 88-year-old woman, identified by a neighbor as his mother. The police are investigating the relationship and circumstances surrounding their deaths. A neighbor expressed shock, noting he frequently interacted with the man, named John, but rarely saw the woman, Dolores. The police recovered a handgun at the scene and are still determining the cause of the woman's death.
Cops responded to a 911 call about a male shot at a Middle Village home on 80th Street near 58th Avenue just after 1 p.m., according to the NYPD.
"This is all very shocking,' the neighbor, Sam Ilyayev, told The Post. Ilyayev said he often ran into the man, whom he called John, around the neighborhood..."
A handgun was recovered at the scene. And police are still probing the woman's cause of death.
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