Murder-suicide in New York claims five lives

A gruesome murder-suicide on Long Island, New York, left five people dead, reportedly before a family was scheduled to meet with a real estate agent to sell the home of a recently deceased woman.

Nassau County police arrived at the home on Wyoming Court in Syosset, about 30 miles east of New York City, around noon Sunday.

Officers found the shooter outside. Authorities said he had sustained a gunshot wound to himself. They found four other dead victims inside the house.

Police did not immediately identify the victims.

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Mary Macaluso, a local real estate agent, told local newspaper Newsday that she was supposed to meet with a group of relatives at the address to discuss the sale of the house following the death of the owner and matriarch of the family.

“The kids were all here for the funeral and they asked me to come over and look at the house,” she told the newspaper. One of the siblings had reportedly requested the meeting while other relatives from Florida were in town for the funeral.

Fox News Digital could not immediately reach Macaluso for comment on Sunday.

Records and an online obituary show that 95-year-old Theresa Martha DeLucia was the home's last resident and was buried last week, Newsday reported.

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Since Sunday evening, the online obituary is no longer visible on the Internet.

A couple living in the neighborhood told FOX 5 New York that the suspected shooter was in his 60s and had recently lost his mother, who was in her 90s.

The couple said the son and mother had lived in the neighborhood for years.

“I didn't think that … he would take his whole family, his siblings with him. I thought maybe he was desperate and just did this to himself,” the neighbor told the local broadcaster.

“It's really heartbreaking. This is such a quiet little neighborhood that they used to call them bedroom communities. It's shocking,” another neighbor told FOX 5.

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The house was not yet for sale, but real estate website Zillow estimated its value at nearly $900,000.

Other homes nearby have sold for nearly $1 million, according to the website.