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Brooklyn, NY (77WABC)-Police received a 911 call from a 9-year-old girl shortly before 11:30 pm Monday from inside an apartment at the Van Dyke Houses where three people had been shot to death.
Responding officers discovered three women dead inside the fourth-floor apartment on Sutter Ave. in Brownsville. Police say the victims are the girl’s mother and two sisters. Names of the girl’s mother, 45-years-old, her sister 20-years-old, and a teenage sister have not been released. All three died of fatal gunshot wounds.
During the investigation, police received a second 911 call about a male shot in the vicinity of Mother Gaston Boulevard and Sutter Avenue, in the same complex where the three women were discovered.
Officers found a 46-year-old man on the walkway of 563 Mother Gaston Boulevard, unconscious and unresponsive. He’d suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head, believed to be self-inflicted.
Police say two firearms were recovered from both the deceased male and the location where he was found.
An investigation is ongoing.
