A 38-year-old Queens man shot his girlfriend in the head, then took his own life in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Saturday.
Cops responding to a 911 call of a shooting at a home on 143rd St. near Glassboro Ave. in Jamaica about 2:45 p.m. Friday found Joseph Murphy and 35-year-old Kenisha Mirrison dead inside, cops said.
Both victims had been shot in the head.
A handgun was found next to Murphy’s body, leading police to believe that he had shot Mirrison before killing himself.
Cops are investigting the double killing as a murder-suicide, but were awaiting the results of an autopsy before moving forward, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
The shooting apparently ended ongoing domestic strife between the couple, the source said, although it was not immediately clear if cops had ever been called to their home to stop a fight between the two before.
This is the third time in three months that a romantic relationship ended in a murder-suicide across the five boroughs.
On Feb. 16, Luz Maribel Espinal, 43, was shot to death by her new boyfriend in her apartment on Logan St. near Etna St. in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, before he turned the gun on himself, cops said.
In January, Jason Jackson and his girlfriend, Olga Kirshenbaum, both 34, were both found dead early Wednesday in their apartment on Second St. near Fifth Ave. in Park Slope, cops said.
Both victims had been shot in the head, cops said. A handgun was found next to Jackson’s body, leading police to believe that he shot Kirshenbaum, then took his own life.
