A tragic love triangle was behind an alleged homicide suicide in Queens on Saturday night time — with the love curiosity witnessing the massacre, legislation enforcement sources advised The Publish.
Police came across the bloody scene in Bayside shortly after 10 p.m., discovering 17-year-old Neo Secaira with a gunshot wound to the chest and Frank Liu, 28, a US Marine about to be redeployed, lifeless from an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound to the top, police mentioned.
Each victims had been taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital, the place they had been pronounced lifeless, in response to police.
Sources mentioned the mayhem stemmed from a love triangle involving the 2 lifeless males and an unidentified 19-year-old girl.
Liu’s father, Huili Liu, 64 advised The Publish on Sunday that his son was troubled by the trauma of his abroad service within the Marine Corps and the shaky relationship with the youthful girl.
“My son had psychological remedy on a regular basis within the Marine Corps,” the distraught dad mentioned. “Significantly lately, as a result of his colleagues in Jordan, they died.
“The strain of being referred to as up and this, collectively, it was an excessive amount of,” the older man mentioned.
Huili Liu mentioned his son met the youthful girl whereas serving in North Carolina, and introduced her dwelling to New York — the place she lately dropped a bombshell that she was additionally courting Secaira.
“I say, why? It’s only one lady. There are a lot of ladies,” he advised his heartbroken son. “The lady lived in my condo for half a 12 months. He spent fairly some time together with her. She determined to check right here.”
It’s not clear when Neo Secaira started seeing the lady.
In a merciless twist, the lifeless teen’s mom advised The Publish she realized of her son’s violent loss of life from the alleged killer’s mother.
“At 7:50 this morning, a girl rings my bell,” distraught mother Yolanda Secaira mentioned Sunday. “She requested me, she mentioned, ‘Your son has curly hair?’ I mentioned, ‘Sure.’ She mentioned my son killed your son. I mentioned, ‘What? Your son killed my son?’ She mentioned sure.
“It’s a horrible story, after which she pointed to my husband and he or she turned and left,” she added.
The 19-year-old girl allegedly broke up with the older man and was courting the youthful man, sparking the jealous outburst, the sources mentioned.
Yolanda Secaira, 50, mentioned her son’s boss advised her his new love curiosity referred to as him at work on Saturday, asking him to return choose her up.
{The teenager} left work early — and was killed when he arrived.
In the meantime, the tremendous in Liu’s constructing mentioned the alleged killer was an Military veteran who lived along with his dad and mom within the household’s fourth-floor condo for about 10 years.
“He had a Chinese language girlfriend, a youthful lady, a scholar,” he mentioned. “About seven months in the past she locked herself out and I attempted to assist her. She referred to as him and he referred to as me and he began yelling at me, asking, ‘Why aren’t you attempting to assist her?’
“Then he calls me once more, screaming and cursing and offended and loopy, after which some hours later it seems it’s as a result of she was within the flawed constructing,” mentioned the tremendous, who requested to not be recognized.
“It’s at all times stuff like this with him, all this loopy child stuff,” he added. “He was a silly child.”
The taking pictures rattled the neighborhood.
“I heard the gunshots after which I heard a girl screaming, ‘Assist, assist,’” neighbor Jennie Kim advised The Publish. “My daughter was calling me and he or she was afraid. I went in and we seemed and we noticed a younger girl, highschool possibly faculty age. Teenagers, possibly 20. Asian girl, lengthy hair. And we heard the pictures.
“There are three in a row after which a pause, possibly 30 seconds, possibly a minute,” mentioned Kim, 43. “After which not less than yet one more gunshot.”
The NYPD has not recognized the victims and mentioned the investigation into the lethal taking pictures is ongoing.