NEW YORK – An apparent love triangle ended in tragedy outside a popular chain restaurant in a New York suburb, after an off-duty NYPD officer shot his wife’s lover before turning the gun on himself. police sources said.
The officer rammed the man’s vehicle Sunday night around 10:30 pm outside the Buffalo Wild Wings in Middletown, two senior police officials said. The victim jumped out of his car and tried to escape on foot.
Sources said the officer fired 16 rounds at the man, hitting him in the back and head. The officer then shot himself and died by suicide, officials said.
Both men were pronounced dead at the scene when first responders arrived.
The officer’s wife, who was in another vehicle, told police she had been waiting to meet the boyfriend. She suspected her husband had been tracking the location of her cell phone, the sources said.
Sources said the officer was a 10-year veteran of the NYPD stationed in the Bronx.
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