The straightforward needs of a Lengthy Island mom sparked her son to go on a murderous rampage, massacring his three siblings and niece with a shotgun earlier than turning the weapon on himself.
Joseph DeLucia launched right into a tirade whereas the household had gathered at their mom Theresa’s dwelling to debate her final needs a few week after she died.
The 95-year-old lady’s final will and testomony, signed in 2007, decreed that her property was to be cut up equally amongst her 4 youngsters upon her loss of life.
However carving up the property would require promoting the Syosset dwelling the place Joseph had lived along with his mom his complete life – basically rendering him homeless.
Theresa Martha DeLucia, 95, died on August 19. In her will, signed in 2007, it clearly acknowledged how her property be cut up equally amongst her 4 youngsters upon her loss of life
Distraught son Joe DeLucia Jr, left, thought he’d find yourself homeless and killed 4 of his household earlier than turning the gun on himself as they met to debate winding up his late mom’s affairs
‘I direct any member of my household who could also be dwelling in such dwelling on the time of my loss of life to vacate similar to facilitate such sale and empower my Executor to take any and all steps fairly required to effectuate this provision of my Will,’ the doc, was made public in Nassau County courtroom this week, states.
Beneath the settlement, Joseph would have acquired 1 / 4 of his late mom’s property.
Nonetheless, the previous EMT and mechanic was already coping with the lack of his mom and was now confronted with the loss off his dwelling.
Joseph received maintain of a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun and shot his two sisters, Joanne Kearns, 69, of Tampa, Florida, Tina Hammond, 64, of East Patchogue, and his brother, Frank DeLucia, 63, of Durham, North Carolina.
After slaying his siblings, he then shot lifeless his niece, Victoria Hammond, 30, of East Patchogue.
DeLucia’s sister Tina Hammond, 64, was shot lifeless. She nonetheless lived on Lengthy Island and helped take care of her mom and brother
Tina’s daughter, Victoria Hammond, 30, was Joseph’s niece. She was additionally shot lifeless
Oldest sister Joanne Kearns, 69, from Tampa, was on the town for the funeral and in addition killed
Joseph DeLucia used this 12-gauge pump-action shotgun that he legally purchased, to gun down his household
Officers discovered Joseph DeLucia with a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the entrance garden of this Syosset, New York dwelling. The 4 different victims had been discovered inside
All 4 had been discovered shot to loss of life within the den in the back of the home when police went in after discovering DeLucia’s physique outdoors.
Joseph lastly took his personal life, taking pictures himself within the entrance yard of the house.
‘The notion of Joseph Jr. was that he was being minimize out of the need and was going to be displaced and not using a place to go,’ Nassau County Police Capt. Stephen Fitzpatrick stated, noting how he had psychological well being points.
DeLucia had at all times suffered from such issues, and was born with the umbilical twine wrapped round his neck, depriving him of oxygen.
However his psychological state nosedived after his mom died on August 19.
He stated his siblings tried to guarantee him that he can be sorted it doesn’t matter what occurred, however he did not imagine them.
‘Due to that notion, he determined that day to get a loaded, Mossberg shotgun, 12 gauge, approached them within the rear space of the home, and from the kitchen, fired 12 pictures, hanging all 4 of them a number of instances,’ he stated.
The home is believed to be price about $900,000. Members of the family needed an evaluation executed rapidly as a result of two of the siblings had come from out of city
DeLucia opened fireplace contained in the household dwelling on Wyoming Courtroom in Syosset, on Lengthy Island final month
The home is believed to be price about $900,000. Members of the family needed an evaluation executed rapidly as a result of two of the siblings had come from out of city for the funeral, and had been headed again to Florida and North Carolina.
Joseph had lived in the home his complete life, and neighbors stated shedding the house was simply too insufferable for him.
Fitzpatrick stated there was a welfare verify on the house in 2022 however DeLucia ‘was not displaying any indicators of something that we might take motion’.
‘He had previous psychological points, psych points, that had been reported to us,’ he stated.
“He was form of a hoarder, spent all his cash on his instruments and stuff. The home was just about filled with instruments and stuff concerned in auto mechanics.
‘He lived there all his life, by no means lived on his personal. So you’ll be able to see the mindset the place his world was now altering, at 59 years outdated, and he was panicking.’
