A Brooklyn man who shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on
himself had the weapon in his hand when cops found the dead couple in
their bed, police said Saturday.
A suicide note was also found near the bodies of Peter and Elsie Jones
in their Canarsie townhouse on St. Jude Place on Friday, police sources
said.
Cops haven’t said what the 53-year-old husband wrote in the note.
The 38-year-old wife, who helped produce the Viagra pill for Pfizer
Pharmaceuticals, was trying to separate from her spouse before the
violence erupted, friends and police sources said.
Police made the grisly discovery about 11:30 a.m. Friday after Elsie’s
sister, Rachelle Thevenin, called to say the couple — who leave behind
an 8-year-old son — had not been seen since Wednesday, sources said.
Both had been shot in the head.
The child was with a baby-sitter at the time, sources said.
Neighbor Maria Moses, 43, told the Daily News that the couple had gone
to counseling. The sessions apparently didn’t work and she asked him for
a divorce.
She described Peter Jones as aggressive, adding that the wife was quiet and seemed like she was under his thumb.
Peter — who drove a dollar van and had no criminal record — and Elsie
were also in the process of adopting Thevenin’s children, who lived with
the couple.
Neither Thevenin nor her mother could be reached for comment on Saturday.
One neighbor, who said he was contacted by a school administrator on
Wednesday after the couple failed to pick up one of the children, said
he saw them in a recent fight.
“I heard she had tried to kick him out,” the neighbor said.
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