New York police say the 40-year-old woman shot her four-month-old baby on Saturday before turning the gun on herself. The motives for this act have not yet been revealed.
A “murder-suicide” that shocks across the Atlantic. Krystal Cascetta, 40, a renowned oncologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in the United States, killed her four-month-old daughter on Saturday before killing herself at her home in Somers, upstate, announced New York police in a statement.
“Around 7 a.m., Krystal Cascetta entered her child’s room and shot her baby, then turned the gun on herself, New York State Police said, before add, the scene is consistent with a murder-suicide.”
The investigation was turned over to the New York State Police Criminal Investigation Bureau in Somers.
The community “deeply saddened”
A medical graduate of Albany Medical College, this oncologist specializing in breast, bone, gynecological and gastrointestinal cancers had been praised at her former university for “demonstrating excellence in humanistic clinical care, leadership, compassion and dedication to service”, according to NBC News.
While the circumstances of this tragedy have not yet been elucidated, the relatives and patients of the doctor said they were “upset”. “When we heard the news, we were shaken to the core. Really. And the whole neighborhood… we are all upset,” a patient told the American media. CBS News.
For its part, the hospital in which Krystal Cascetta worked sent a statement expressing the sadness of the staff of the establishment. “The Mount Sinai community is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of a Mount Sinai Health System physician and her child. We offer our deepest condolences to Dr. Cascetta’s family, friends, colleagues and patients,” is it written there.
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