New York Daily News

Counselors for family in B’klyn slays

- Chauncey Alcorn, Rocco Parascando­la and Thomas Tracy

GRIEF COUNSELORS were brought in Saturday to talk to the devastated Brooklyn family that lost four members — the youngest a 1-year-old girl — in a horrific murder-suicide.

The counseling session at the Riverdale Osborne Towers in Brownsvill­e was put together by the Brooklyn DA’s office and Councilwom­an Alicka Ampry-Samuel.

On Wednesday, Terrance Briggs, 27, killed three members of his family, including his and Olivia Callender’s baby daughter Laylay, before turning the gun on himself. The dead included Briggs’ stepfather, Loyd Drain Jr., 57, and his 16-year-old namesake Loyd III. Laylay’s grandmothe­r, Patricia Green, 53, stumbled onto the carnage when she returned home that morning.

Police said Briggs had an extensive criminal record, with 17 arrests. Cops had been called to the apartment 15 times for domestic violence incidents between family members.

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