String of domestic killings shocks Bergen County
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014, 12:28 AM
BY STEPHANIE AKIN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
In Bergen County, where violent crime is a rarity, four deaths over the past week have punctuated a stark reality: no community is immune from the horrors of domestic violence.
The killings — a man in his 80s shot and killed his brother-in-law, his wife and then himself in Hasbrouck Heights on Wednesday morning, just days after a 24-year-old allegedly beat and stabbed his mother to death in their Ho-Ho-Kus home — join more than a dozen other domestic killings in Bergen County over the past two years.
“We are well aware that it crosses all boundaries, all races, all communities, all socioeconomic strata and all ages,” said Elaine Myerson, executive director of Shelter our Sisters in Hackensack. “The bottom line is that this happens in Bergen County. We’re not immune.”
Details of this week’s crimes were still unclear Thursday as investigators and friends and family of the victims continued to try to piece together what happened and why. A central question surrounding both cases might never be answered – what could drive a person to turn on those with whom he shared his closest bonds?
“What probably sets the domestic violence homicides apart is, you’re dealing with otherwise very decent people that do some terrible things under circumstances that you just can’t explain,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. “That’s why our courts take domestic violence cases so seriously. … These are all potential homicides.”
So far in 2014, seven of 10 homicides have been domestic crimes, Molinelli said. Last year, it was six out of seven.
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Related people and people in general that know each other kill each other there is no shock.
On of the homicides in Ridgewood was a scorned wife shooting her husband in the head over his asking for a divorce, I think she only did 8 years in some kind of mental hospital. Nothing like a domestic to brig out the worst in people.
Yes, lots of grisly deaths…and how about suicides ?
People jumping in front of trains or off the GWB….49 rescues this year on the GWB with 4 months left.