PLEASANT VALLEY, N.Y. – Police say an upstate New York man killed his wife and then used a shotgun to kill his two sons and himself.
Trooper Melissa McMorris said Friday that pharmacist Abbas Lodhi first shot Sarwat Lodhi in Wappingers Falls, then killed 9-year-old Zain and 13-year-old Mujtabah. The man’s body and those of his children were found Thursday in their Dutchess County hometown, Pleasant Valley.
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McMorris says Sarwat Lodhi’s body was found along a road on Friday.
She says Abbas Lodhi and his sons died of gunshots to their chests. She says his wife may have been killed with the same weapon.
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The investigation into what was behind the killings continues.
Authorities say the parents moved from Pakistan during the 1990s and became U.S. citizens.
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