An elderly woman and man — who one neighbor told The Post was her son — were found dead in a Queens home Saturday afternoon, according to police.
Cops responded to a 911 call about a male shot at a Middle Village home on 80th Street near 58th Avenue just after 1 p.m., according to the NYPD.
When they entered the home, they found the man, 57, dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head – as well as an 88-year-old woman’s body decomposing, police sources said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the woman died.
Cops said they were still investigating the relationship between the pair, but a neighbor said they were a mother-and-son duo.
“This is all very shocking,” the neighbor, Sam Ilyayev, told The Post.
Ilyayev said he often ran into the man, whom he called John, around the neighborhood, but rarely saw the older woman, who was named Dolores.
“For years, we knew each other more on the casual side,” Ilyayev recalled, referring to John.
“Just slight conversations here and there, but we would always see him on a regular basis.”
“He always loved the conversation. …My next-door neighbor here was good friends with him, and would talk to him very frequently and I would see them both, and jump in the conversation anytime.”
“We only mainly see him coming out of the house,” Ilyayev said, adding that he believed John had lived at the home alone.
A white-haired woman wearing a red jacket was seen hugging another woman wearing a grey hoodie outside of the home Saturday afternoon, while police investigated the scene.
A handgun was recovered at the scene.
And police are still probing the woman’s cause of death.
Additional reporting by Brigitte Stelzer.
