A man fatally shot himself Wednesday outside a Bronx building where two others were found dead in an apparent homicide-suicide, police said.
Police were called to a three-story apartment on Southern Boulevard in Longwood after reports of shots fired around 9:30 p.m., and found a man slumped over in a pool of blood outside the building, with a gun next to the body.
The man was shot in the torso and head; two others, a man and woman, were found fatally shot in a second floor apartment at the location, police told the Daily News.
“We haven’t ascertained their identities yet,” an officer told The News.
Neighbors were shocked at the carnage.
One man, who would only give his name as Luis, 49, said he had seen the man in a deli and grocery story across the street from the apartment just before the bloodshed.
“He came in and played his number, the Mega and Power Ball,” Luis told The News. “He said ‘God bless you,’ went upstairs, and I heard gun shots. He was sitting there shot, with the gun beside him. He was shot in the body and in the head.”
Another neighbor, who did not want to give her name, told The News, “I came down and he was slumped over, sitting down in the blood… The gun was right there next to him. It’s crazy.”
