Articles labeled: Francisco Santiago

In one of the most selfish and cruel acts imaginable, a father shoots his children’s mother, right in front of them, and then kills himself. One child was found with so much blood on him that the police thought that he had been shot too:

Francisco Santiago, 44, shot and killed his girlfriend Flora Acosta, 39, and then turned the gun on himself in their Willoughby Street home, police said. Both died of wounds to the head from a small-caliber handgun.

Before the shooting, police said, Santiago sent their 10-year-old son upstairs to his aunt’s home, but a daughter, 8, and a teenage son with autism remained in the apartment.