Ex-NYPD cop kills wife in murder-suicide while 3 children in the house: police

A retired NYPD fatally shot his wife then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide while their three kids were in their Westchester County home, police said Wednesday.Sean O’Neill, 54, apparently fired multiple shots at his wife Arlene O’Neill, a fifth-grade teacher in Tuckaheoe, then shot himself once in the head after a dispute just after 7 a.m., Yonkers police said in a statement.Emergency responders tried to save the 47-year-old Arlene O’Neill but she was pronounced dead on the scene, cops said.“The couple has three children who were home at the time of the incident but were physically unharmed,” police said in a statement.“They are currently in the custody of family members.”Arlene O’Neill was a teacher at Anne Hutchinson school in the Eastchester school district, superintendent Ronald D.

Valenti said in a message to parents.All three of the couple’s children are students in the district.Sean O’Neill was working as a detective at the time of his retirement last year, sources said....