New York’s top cancer doctor, 40, ‘kills himself and his baby in their $1million Westchester home in gruesome murder-suicide’
- State police say Krystal Cascetta shot her baby before turning the gun on herself on Saturday morning
- Dr. Cascetta was a renowned specialist in hematology and oncology at Mount Sinai in New York.
- She had lived in the town of Somers with her husband and their child in New York State
A leading cancer doctor has killed himself and his baby in what police have determined was a murder-suicide at his $1million Westchester home.
Dr. Krystal Cascetta was a specialist in hematology-oncology at Mount Sinai in New York.
Police say the incident happened around 7am this morning in the town of Somers, with a preliminary inquest ruling that she and her baby committed suicide.
A state police statement said, “The New York State Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) Somers is investigating a murder/suicide in the town of Somers.
“A preliminary investigation revealed that at around 7 a.m. Krystal Cascetta entered her child’s room and shot her baby, then turned the gun on herself.
Renowned oncologist Dr Krystal Cascetta reportedly committed suicide with her baby at her Westchester home
This is the house where the alleged suicide took place, in the child’s room
“The scene is consistent with a murder/suicide.
The baby’s age and gender have yet to be released by police, but a due date shared hints online that Dr Cascetta was due to give birth in March this year.
Dr. Cascetta had lived in the Granite Springs area of Somers, New York, in a million dollar home with her husband Tim Talty.
Contacted by DailyMail.com on Saturday, an upset Talty said: ‘Can you give us some time?
Cascetta’s medical profile indicates that she graduated from Albany Medical College and did her residency at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
