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NYC man sparks two-hour SWAT standoff after killing girlfriend, threatening to ‘shoot everyone in the house’: police

A Brooklyn grandma was allegedly killed Sunday by her berserk boyfriend, who then warned her terrified daughter, “I just shot your mother, and now I’m going to shoot everyone in the house,’’ cops and locals said.

The man is suspected of repeatedly shooting his 49-year-old girlfriend and then engaging in a tense two-hour standoff with SWAT teams — before being nabbed hiding in a crawl space under the Brownsville home’s garden, police and witnesses said.

“All the cops had their guns pointing at the building. I thought I was going to get shot,” a neighbor told The Post, asking not to be named.

The witness said he called the boyfriend of the slain woman’s 29-year-old daughter when he saw police aiming at the family’s home.

“I ask, ‘What’s going on in your house?!” the neighbor said. “He say, ‘Shhhhhh, I call you back.’ They’d locked themselves in the bedroom with the baby.”

The daughter and her boyfriend later told the resident about the suspected gunman issuing his threat to kill them all, the neighbor said.

Police had responded to a 911 call about 2:58 a.m. at the home on East 96th Street, where they discovered the shot woman with bullet wounds to her head, torso and leg.

The woman, 49, was shot multiple times in her head, torso and leg during the domestic incident. Diego Luzuriaga (FreedomNewsTV)
Police take a 48-year-old person of interest at the scene into custody. Diego Luzuriaga (FreedomNewsTV)
Police have not released the names of the victim or the suspected gunman. Diego Luzuriaga (FreedomNewsTV)

The alleged gunman had been the woman’s boyfriend of two and a half years, witnesses said.

“He was leaning on her,” the neighbor said. “She bought him a car. … She take care of the household. He didn’t talk much, he just followed her around everywhere she go.”

Emergency medical services responded to the home and brought the woman to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Authorities eventually took a 48-year-old man — who neighbors said was the victim’s boyfriend — into custody.

The woman had lived in they home for at least 15 years, residents said.

Neighbors said the woman’s husband heavily relied on her. Seth Gottfried
Cops were engaged in a standoff at the woman’s home for several hours early Sunday. Seth Gottfried
The suspect was caught hiding in a crawl space, neighbors said. Diego Luzuriaga (FreedomNewsTV)

She was from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, while her boyfriend was from Jamaica, said Linford McKinzie, 62, who lives across the street.

Another neighbor, a 47-year-old man who only gave his first name, Earl, said he heard the couple arguing early Sunday morning as he was coming back from McDonald’s at about 2:30 a.m.

“I hear a woman shouting, screaming loud at someone,’’ Earl said. “I didn’t pay attention. I heard it before. This neighborhood can be rowdy.

“Then I heard the helicopter. I came out and see all the neighbors. … It’s crazy!”