Overview
- Four adults were found fatally shot Wednesday morning inside a fifth-floor apartment at NYCHA’s Castle Hill Houses at 2225 Lacombe Ave., where a firearm was recovered.
- Police identified the shooter as 44-year-old Kaseem Stukes, who died at the scene after allegedly killing his mother Theresa, 75, his daughter Kianna, 26, and her boyfriend Andrew Reynoso, 33.
- Building video shows Stukes stepping outside around 8:10 a.m. to leave a voicemail telling his 20-year-old son to “check on your family,” before the bodies were discovered around 9:45 a.m.
- Investigators report no signs of forced entry, are not seeking additional suspects, and have not established a motive, with the medical examiner to make official rulings.
- Court and police sources say Stukes had a long record of gun and drug arrests and was expected in Bronx Criminal Court that day as prosecutors prepared to move to dismiss a recent weapons case.