A man has been arrested for fatally shooting his ex-wife and her new partner in their multi-million dollar mansion on Long Island.
Daniel Coppola, 50, allegedly shot and killed Kelly Coppola, also 50, and Kenneth Pohlman, 53, as they slept in their St. James home shortly before midnight Wednesday night.
Detective Lt. Kevin Breyer said the couple’s teenage daughter was in the home before the incident but was alerted by her father.
“The daughter was in the house and he reached out to her and told her to leave the house,” he said.
The alleged perpetrator and his ex-wife (pictured together) are known to have recently gone through a bitter divorce
A man has been arrested for fatally shooting his ex-wife and her new partner in their multi-million dollar mansion on Long Island
Kenneth Pohlman, 53, (pictured) was shot dead along with his partner in their home as they lay in bed
“He picked the girl up, put her in his car, committed the murders, drove her from there to Harbor Road. While he was driving her, she was texting friends and saying, ‘I don’t know what my dad did. I don’t know about my mom.’
“They’re trying to get in touch with the mother, but they can’t. They’re calling 911,” he said.
Coppola has been arrested and is being held for psychological evaluation after making suicidal remarks, the Message from New York.
It seems that the alleged perpetrator and his ex-wife had recently gone through a bitter divorce.
The victims shared a $1.1 million, six-bedroom, four-bathroom home in affluent Suffolk County on Long Island, New York.
Daniel Coppola, 50, allegedly shot and killed Kelly Coppola, also 50, and Kenneth Pohlman, 53, as they slept in their St. James home
Breyer called it a “tragic incident.”
“Kenny was a good friend of my ex-husband and he was one of the nicest people you could ever meet,” a friend said after the announcement.
Pohlman reportedly has three children who are now orphaned after their mother died of cancer.
Daniel and Kelly have a 15-year-old daughter who warned friends that her father was behaving strangely and may have hurt her mother