NEW YORK — A husband and spouse and their two sons, ages 10 and 12, have been discovered lifeless in a suburban New York house Saturday in what authorities described as a murder-suicide by a police sergeant.

Police officers mentioned Watson Morgan, a sergeant with the Bronxville Police Division, fatally shot his spouse, Ornela Morgan, 43, and their sons earlier than taking his personal life.

The 4 our bodies have been found by police simply after midnight on Friday on the household’s house in New Metropolis, a suburb of New York Metropolis, after Morgan failed to point out up for his night shift on the Bronxville Police Division.

“At this part within the investigation it’s believed that Watson killed his spouse and two youngsters, previous to killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the Clarkstown Police Division mentioned.

All 4 had gunshot wounds, police mentioned. A handgun was recovered on the scene.

Watson, 49, started his profession with the New York Police Division in 2000 earlier than becoming a member of the pressure in Bronxville, a village in Westchester County, seven years later, in accordance with a division biography. He was promoted to sergeant in 2016.

In an announcement, Bronxville Police Chief Christopher Satriale mentioned the killings left the division with “profoundly damaged hearts on the mindless lack of harmless lives.”

“Our hearts exit to Sergeant Morgan’s prolonged household,” he mentioned. “Our ideas and prayers are additionally together with his Bronxville Police Division household.”