Patricia Nigro, 64, was killed last October by William Groesbeck III, a 69-year-old retired police officer, who then apparently turned the gun on himself, according to multiple media reports.
Diana Santaiti says the gun used to shoot Nigro was wrongly returned to Groesbeck by the police department, which, she said, knew he did not have a license for the Colt .38, the lohud.com report said.
The pistol had been confiscated by police several months earlier during a domestic violence incident at the couple’s Adam Court home, the lohud.com story said.
One day after it was returned to Groesbeck, both he and Nigro were dead, the victims of an apparent murder-suicide, media reports said.
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