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Father in Washington Township tragedy says family was non-traditional but tightknit
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2013 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY DECEMBER 27, 2013, 11:45 PM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Teia and her brother Travis joined the Gallo family separately, a pair of happy accidents. Now they’re forever linked in tragedy. As news spread Friday that Travis allegedly killed Teia by stabbing her with a knife on the day after Christmas, it sent waves of shock and sadness across Bergen County.
It also pulled the sprawling Gallo family together to grieve.
“We’re a very strong family,” said Dr. Robert James Gallo, a prominent doctor in Hackensack and patriarch of a family with 12 children and 14 grandchildren. “There’s a lot of love and a lot of hugging, and we will get through this. We will weather this storm.”
Travis, 17, was charged with murder Friday by authorities who say he stabbed and killed his sister Teia, 20. She died Thursday in the family’s large split-level home at the end of a cul-de-sac in Washington Township.