Officer Rosette Samuel killed
little Dylan and her boyfriend before taking her own life. A ripped-up suicide
note investigators retrieved from a toilet offers a bizarre reason for the
baby's slaying.
An NYPD cop on a murderous
rampage killed her baby so he wouldn’t “be a burden on him,” a police source
said.
A ripped-up suicide note
investigators retrieved from a toilet in Officer Rosette Samuel’s Brooklyn
apartment offers that bizarre reason for the year-old boy’s slaying.
Before blowing Dylan Samuel
Peters away with a shot to his little chest, the 43-year-old Samuel shot her
boyfriend, Dason Peters, dead. Her 19-year-old son from a previous
relationship, Dondre Samuel, jumped out of a window and called cops.
In her suicide note, the cop
source said, Samuel asked that someone care for her teenage son.
Her motive for killing her
33-year-old boyfriend in her E. 56th St. home in Brooklyn could be as old as
time.
“There may have been an issue
of another woman,” the source said.
On Tuesday, Dason Peters’
mother said she can’t come to terms with the “evil” double murder and suicide
that destroyed her family.
Dason Peters and his 1-year-old
son Dylan Samuel Peters right after Dylan was born.
“My child never said anything,”
a distraught Rosemund Peters told the Daily News at her East Flatbush home, a
block away from where Dason and Dylan Peters died in he Monday morning carnage.
Rosemund Peters, a nurse
practitioner at SUNY Downstate, said her family barely knew their son’s
girlfriend, who had 13 years on the job with the NYPD.
“What she did was evil,”
Rosemund said.
She called her son a generous
soul, and her only grandson a loving and playful tot.
“He was a sweet child. He
wouldn’t cry in church. I would call him Dilly Dill and he would wink at me,”
said the grieving grandmother.
Samuel fatally shot Peters
about 8:20 a.m. Monday, cops said. The mortally wounded man fell face down in
the hallway, covered in blood. Samuel then trained a 9-mm. Glock on the
couple’s young son and shot him in the chest. She was found in her bed, dead of
a self-inflicted gunshot, with her lifeless baby on her left and her gun near
her right side.
No matter what was going on
between the two adults, said Rosemund Peters, little Dylan would never have
been cast aside.
The family said they've
received little information from police about a motive for the shooting.
“I’d keep that child. I don’t
know why she had to kill him,” she said. “The baby was the spitting image of my
son.”
Rosemund Peters said she had
worried about the baby boy living in the same home as a loaded gun. But her son
— an MTA supervisor since 2001 — assuaged her fears.
“He would say, ‘Yes, mom, she
has a lock and key for that.’”
Peters had planned to go to Guyana
Monday afternoon, his family said. It’s unknown if his impending trip
contributed to Samuel’s unspeakable violence.
He was planning a two-week trip
to Guyana, where he would stay with relatives and look at parcels of land for
his family to purchase, said his mother, who hopes to retire in her native
country.
He packed a suitcase at 4:30
a.m. the day of his death and left his mother’s home at 6 a.m. to go over to
Samuel’s apartment to pick up baby Dylan while the officer went to work.
That was the last time Rosemund
Peters saw her son.
“As a mother, you don’t expect
to see your child go in such a way. If you live by the sword, you die by the
sword, but my child was not that type of child,” she said
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