A nurse who treated COVID-19 patients, her boyfriend, and her father were killed in a New Jersey house fire that police are investigating as a possible murder-suicide.
The victims, identified by neighbors as Katherine Guiterrez, 34, her father Carlos, and her boyfriend Nic, were pronounced dead at the scene on Monday night.
Evidence at the site of the fire on Jackson Avenue in Wayne, New Jersey, indicated a possible-murder suicide, sources told WABC-TV.
Investigators have not commented further on how the three victims died, or on who is suspected of carrying out the murder suicide.
Guiterrez and her boyfriend leave behind a four-year-old daughter, Adrianna, as well as her three sisters and her mother.
Father, daughter, her boyfriend die in New Jersey house fire
Updated May 05, 2021;
A 34-year-old woman, her boyfriend and her father have been identified by family and friends as the victims in a Passaic County, N.J., house fire on Monday night.
The victims were identified by neighbors and on a GoFundMe page as Carlos Gutierrez, his daughter Katherinne and her boyfriend.
“Fire and pain is what is left in our family’s heart because we as the four sisters left lost a sister, our mother with 4 children lost her husband, our niece who is only 4 years old is now left without a father and a mother,” a GoFundMe page stated.
Osamah Alsaidi
The case of 19-year-old city resident Osamah Alsaidi led to federal charges against two officers after a video of the incident showed up on social media. An FBI agent who watched the video said in court papers that it showed two of the officers involved Kevin Patino and Kendry Tineo-Restituyo had assaulted the teenager and falsified a Police Department incident report.
What police records say:
The police were called about a “suspicious person” on Madison Avenue at 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 14.
Patino wrote in a report that Alsaidi walked toward the officers “screaming profanities and acting belligerent causing a disturbance to residents in the surrounding area.” Alsaidi then allegedly “proceeded to get an aggressive stance” before moving toward Patino and striking him with a closed fist, causing him to fall backward. Alsaidi allegedly was holding Patino when Tineo-Restituyo took him to the ground.
Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a statement that Keco admitted under oath to sending two text messages to Baycora with the purpose to terrorize him and in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror.
Joe Malinconico of the Paterson Press contributed to this article.
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