A retired police officer apparently shot his two teenage daughters to death and then killed himself in the family’s suburban New York home, a police official said Sunday.
Harrison Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said the deaths of 52-year-old Glen Hochman and his daughters Alissa and Deanna on Saturday “would appear to be a double murder-suicide.” He said the motive was unknown.
Marraccini said police went to the home in the Westchester County village of Harrison after a person reported that no one was answering the door. Police found the bodies of Hochman and his daughters at 3:50 p.m.
“It looks at this time that the father killed the two girls and then himself,” Marraccini said.
He said Hochman’s body was found in the garage while the bodies of 17-year-old Alissa and 13-year-old Deanna were found on “the main level” of the house. Three dogs were shot to death as well, he said.
Marraccini said Hochman’s wife and the oldest of the couple’s three daughters were not home at the time of the shootings.
Hochman spent 22 years at the White Plains police department before retiring recently.
“The department is shocked and horrified by the news of this unfathomable tragedy,” White Plains Police Commissioner David Chong said in a statement. “We can only pray for the family. Officer Hochman served this department and the city of White Plains with honor and integrity.”
