Petlyn Job, retired NYPD agent, and her longtime boyfriend Alex Delone were found dead with gunshot wounds yesterday inside their Brooklyn (NYC) home in a possible homicide-suicide case.
Deputies who arrived at the home on Beverly Rd. near E. 48th St., East Flatbush neighborhood, around 2:50 p.m. Friday found Job (49) and Delone (56) dead with gunshot wounds to the head. , reported Daily News.
Delone was an immigrant of Haitian origin who made his living buying cars at auction and then reselling them, according to his family. He and Job had been dating for about 10 to 12 years, a source said.
Before retiring in 2021, Job worked at the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn. “I am terribly sad,” said his former partner Diana Torres, who graduated from the police academy with Job. “She was a beautiful woman. She loved the people, she served the city well.
Job and Torres worked closely with officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were executed in 2014 by a suicide bomber seeking to avenge the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police officers.
Job was a single mother and leaves behind a 24-year-old son and two daughters, ages 20 and 10, Torres said. “She did everything for those kids,” she added. In addition, the former police officer was still grieving the loss of her mother last year.
Delone had a twin brother. The investigation was still ongoing last night.
In a similar case, in November William Beattie, a retired New Jersey police officer, broke into the home of his ex-girlfriend Erin Gatier and shot her dead before committing suicide, according to prosecutors.
Also that month, an off-duty police officer in Greece (NY) fatally shot a 27-year-old Hispanic woman, wounded another, and then shot herself. And in May on “Mother’s Day” a 36-year-old NYPD officer fatally shot a young man he suspected was having an affair with his wife and then committed suicide in Wallkill, Orange County (NY).
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