An Edgewater man shot his wife and 8-year-old daughter in the back of their heads, then turned the gun on himself in their luxury high-rise on the Hudson River sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said late Friday.
Melissa Staski, 49, and her daughter, Nellie, were in a bed when Michael Stasko, 52, shot them dead with a .45-caliber handgun loaded with hollow-point bullets, Molinelli told reporters outside the Windsor at Mariners complex at the foot of Dempsey Avenue.
Its barrel was wrapped in a cloth, which likely partially muffled the sound of the gunshots, he said.
Police got a call just after 7 p.m. Friday from Melissa Stasko’s concerned brother in Missouri, who said “his sister and her family were to have arrived approximately 1 o’clock today” for Christmas, the prosecutor said late Friday. READ MORE….
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