Top cancer doctor, 40, ‘shoots herself and her baby to death at their $1 million home in Westchester in gruesome murder-suicide’
Top cancer doctor, 40, ‘shoots herself and her baby to death at their $1 million home in Westchester in gruesome murder-suicide’
- State police say Krystal Cascetta shot her baby before turning the gun on herself Saturday morning
- Dr. Cascetta was a renowned hematology and oncology specialist at Mount Sinai in New York City
- She had lived in the town of Somers with her husband and their child in upstate New York
A leading cancer doctor killed herself and her baby in what police have determined was a murder-suicide, at her $1 million Westchester home.
Dr. Krystal Cascetta was a hematology-oncology specialist at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Police say the incident happened around 7am this morning in the town of Somers, with a preliminary investigation ruling that she had shot herself and her baby.
A statement from the state police said: “The New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) Somers is investigating a homicide/suicide in the city of Somers.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Krystal Cascetta entered her child’s room around 7:00 a.m. and shot her baby, then turned the gun on herself.
Dr. Krystal Cascetta, a well-known cancer doctor, allegedly committed suicide and her baby at her home in Westchester
This is the house where the suspected murder and suicide took place, in the nursery
“The scene corresponds to a murder/suicide.
The baby’s age and gender have not yet been released by police, but a due date shared online hints that Dr. Cascetta in March this year would be expected.
Dr Cascetta lived in the Granite Springs area of Somers, New York State in a $1 million house with her husband Tim Talty.
Contacted by DailyMail.com on Saturday, an upset-sounding Talty said, “Can you give us some time?”
Cascetta’s medical profile says she graduated from Albany Medical College and did her residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.