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Queens husband and wife killed execution-style as they slept in their bed: police sources
BY Erik Badia, Henrick Karoliszyn and Jonathan Lemire
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Originally Published:Friday, September 2nd 2011, 10:28 AM
Updated: Friday, September 2nd 2011, 3:16 PM
The motive for the 4 a.m. shooting - which rocked the working-class neighborhood - remains unknown, police said.
Anthony DelMundo for News
The motive for the 4 a.m. shooting - which rocked the working-class neighborhood - remains unknown, police said.
A Queens husband and wife were shot execution-style -- murdered as they slept in their bed in Queens, police sources said.
The couple's 23-year-old son was also shot, wounded by an unknown gunman he said pushed his way into the quiet Springfield Gardens home and disappeared after the bloodshed, the sources said.
Investigators believe the intruder first opened fire on the son, identified as Shane Jaggarnauth, striking him in the shoulder.
The gunman then walked upstairs and shot Sugrim 'Jay' Jaggarnauth, 64, and his wife Rosie, 56. The gunman shot both of them in the head.
The wounded son staggered upstairs moments later and made a heartbreaking 911 call, simply saying "My parents are dead," according to a friend.
The couple's other son, Shawn Jaggarnauth, returned home a short time later to find police cars parked outside his family's home.
"My family was shot, my parents were killed," cried Shawn a few hours after the 4 a.m shooting.
"I can't believe this," he said, weeping as he stood outside the 113th Precinct stationhouse. "This is crazy."
Sugrim Jaggarnauth (left), with his son Shawn and wife, Rosie. (Family Handout)
The motive for the cold-blooded murders - which rocked the working-class neighborhood - remains unknown, police said.
"They're the mother and father of two beautiful sons," said family friend Melissa McGregor, who was out with Shawn at the time of the shooting and later heard a recording of Sugrim's 911 call.
"It's so sad," she said, breaking down in tears. "I can't believe they died."
Shane Jaggarnauth's black Toyota Rav 4 was missing from the Grayson St. home. Cops blanketed southeast Queens looking for the SUV in the hours after the double murder, but the vehicle has not been located, police said.
"Everybody here knows the family," said McGregor, adding that the Jaggarnauths, originally from Trinidad, had lived on the quiet block for more than a decade. "It doesn't make sense."
"They just came through and murdered the whole family," McGregor said.
Investigators did not reveal whether anything beyond the Toyota was missing. The murdered couple's sons, who both work at a nearby physical therapy facility, were cooperating with detectives - though no one has been eliminated as a suspect at this time, a police source said.
Shane Jaggarnauth told cops that was returning from walking the family dog when the gunman forced his way into the home, the source said. The source would not say whether investigators believed his story.
McGregor insisted that neither the dead couple nor their sons had any enemies.
"It makes no sense," she said. "They were just really sweet people. They were good people who work."
Rosie Jaggarnauth's family was getting set to celebrate her birthday on Sunday - but now Shawn will have to break the tragic news to his young son, McGregor said.
"\[The boy\] loves his grandmother," she said. "How do you tell your son they'll never see their grandparents again?"
Queens husband and wife killed execution-style as they slept in their bed: police sources
BY Erik Badia, Henrick Karoliszyn and Jonathan Lemire
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Originally Published:Friday, September 2nd 2011, 10:28 AM
Updated: Friday, September 2nd 2011, 3:16 PM
The motive for the 4 a.m. shooting - which rocked the working-class neighborhood - remains unknown, police said.
Anthony DelMundo for News
The motive for the 4 a.m. shooting - which rocked the working-class neighborhood - remains unknown, police said.
A Queens husband and wife were shot execution-style -- murdered as they slept in their bed in Queens, police sources said.
The couple's 23-year-old son was also shot, wounded by an unknown gunman he said pushed his way into the quiet Springfield Gardens home and disappeared after the bloodshed, the sources said.
Investigators believe the intruder first opened fire on the son, identified as Shane Jaggarnauth, striking him in the shoulder.
The gunman then walked upstairs and shot Sugrim 'Jay' Jaggarnauth, 64, and his wife Rosie, 56. The gunman shot both of them in the head.
The wounded son staggered upstairs moments later and made a heartbreaking 911 call, simply saying "My parents are dead," according to a friend.
The couple's other son, Shawn Jaggarnauth, returned home a short time later to find police cars parked outside his family's home.
"My family was shot, my parents were killed," cried Shawn a few hours after the 4 a.m shooting.
"I can't believe this," he said, weeping as he stood outside the 113th Precinct stationhouse. "This is crazy."
Sugrim Jaggarnauth (left), with his son Shawn and wife, Rosie. (Family Handout)
The motive for the cold-blooded murders - which rocked the working-class neighborhood - remains unknown, police said.
"They're the mother and father of two beautiful sons," said family friend Melissa McGregor, who was out with Shawn at the time of the shooting and later heard a recording of Sugrim's 911 call.
"It's so sad," she said, breaking down in tears. "I can't believe they died."
Shane Jaggarnauth's black Toyota Rav 4 was missing from the Grayson St. home. Cops blanketed southeast Queens looking for the SUV in the hours after the double murder, but the vehicle has not been located, police said.
"Everybody here knows the family," said McGregor, adding that the Jaggarnauths, originally from Trinidad, had lived on the quiet block for more than a decade. "It doesn't make sense."
"They just came through and murdered the whole family," McGregor said.
Investigators did not reveal whether anything beyond the Toyota was missing. The murdered couple's sons, who both work at a nearby physical therapy facility, were cooperating with detectives - though no one has been eliminated as a suspect at this time, a police source said.
Shane Jaggarnauth told cops that was returning from walking the family dog when the gunman forced his way into the home, the source said. The source would not say whether investigators believed his story.
McGregor insisted that neither the dead couple nor their sons had any enemies.
"It makes no sense," she said. "They were just really sweet people. They were good people who work."
Rosie Jaggarnauth's family was getting set to celebrate her birthday on Sunday - but now Shawn will have to break the tragic news to his young son, McGregor said.
"\[The boy\] loves his grandmother," she said. "How do you tell your son they'll never see their grandparents again?"
