CRIME

Westchester corrections officer dead, two wounded in attempted murder suicide in Yonkers

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Rockland/Westchester Journal News

YONKERS - One Westchester County corrections officer died from a gunshot wound and two others were seriously injured during an attempted murder-suicide that turned into a shoot-out late Friday, police and county officials said.

Edward Quinoy, 40, a Tarrytown resident and a county corrections officer since 2008, was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital Medical Center in the Bronx following the 11:30 p.m. incident in a home on Buckingham Road in Yonkers.

Yonkers police said the two other victims, a man and woman whose names are withheld, are in serious condition at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.

Both are also corrections officers. 

The two were in the home when Quinoy, the woman's ex-boyfriend, forced his way into the house through a rear sliding glass door and fired "multiple shots." 

A Yonkers police officer walks toward a house on Buckingham Road in Yonkers, where a Westchester corrections officer was killed and two others wounded in what police called an attempted murder suicide late on Dec. 7, 2018.

Police said there was "an exchange of gunfire, with the victims firing shots at the suspect. Both victims and the suspect were incapacitated at the scene."

"Upon arrival officers made entry into the home to discover three people down on the floor with multiple gunshot woulds, and a fourth uninjured person," police said. 

Police said "several" handguns were recovered at the scene. 

Quinoy, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head that may have been self-inflicted, later died at the Bronx hospital. 

The two other victims were described as being "in critical condition with life-threatening injuries," according to Yonkers police. 

The fourth person in the home at the time of the shooting was the male victim's mother, who owns the single-family house. It was she who dialed 911 to summon police.

In a statement, Westchester County Executive George Latimer urged that relatives of the dead and injured officers be given privacy to grieve. 

A Yonkers police officer walks toward a house on Buckingham Road in Yonkers, where a Westchester corrections officer was killed and two others wounded in what police called an attempted murder suicide late on Dec. 7, 2018.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with these two correction officers and their fellow members of service during this extremely difficult time," Latimer said. "We request that their privacy be respected as they valiantly attempt to recover."

Yonkers Detective Sgt. Dean Politopoulos said the incident occurred at 11:30 p.m. 

The white two-story, single-family home remained cordoned off with yellow police tape on Saturday morning. A police mobile command unit was parked in front of the house, which is near the intersection with Henry Street. 

The home was last in the news in 2015, when two dogs died in a house fire there. Fire officials determined the blaze was caused by a faulty space heater or power strip.

Quinoy was the brother of Mount Vernon Detective Jose Quinoy, a controversial former Sleepy Hollow police officer. He was the subject of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Tarrytown couple who claimed they were beaten by Quinoy and others.

A federal jury awarded the couple more than $1 million in damages in 2015.

Police on the scene overnight after people were shot on Buckingham Road in Yonkers on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Police later said the incident involved an attempted murder suicide that left one Westchester corrections officer dead and two others seriously wounded.

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Staff Writer Mark Lungariello contributed to this report.

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