FATAL RAGE
Man shoots ex, kills her new guy, self in B’klyn
A SPURNED LOVER critically wounded his former flame and killed her new beau before fatally shooting himself Thursday in Brooklyn — all with the estranged couple’s children just feet away, police said.
After the last ear-shattering shot echoed through the East Flatbush block, killer Jerry Paterson, 39, and his ex’s new boyfriend, Joseph Kennely, 44, were both suffering bullet wounds to the head, cop sources said. The ex-girlfriend suffered a graze wound to her neck.
The former couple had agreed to meet at E. 91 St. and Clarkson Ave. to hand off their two young children — a 5-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son — around 5 p.m., police said.
But the exchange turned ugly when Paterson flew into a rage after spotting the 33-year-old mother of his children in a nearby car with her new love and began pumping bullets through their windshield, cops said.
“I just heard about seven gunshots,” said 19-year-old witness Michaela Bascombe. “I heard people yelling outside. They were just screaming. I didn’t know who was screaming.”
Stepping away from the black, bullet-riddled vehicle, the crazed gunman walked toward his own car, with the two terrified kids inside. He turned the gun on himself and pulled the trigger.
Emergency responders rushed all three of the wounded from the scene of the carnage, but neither of the men could be saved. They both died at Brookdale University Hospital.
The woman was in stable condition at Kings County Hospital, cops said. The children were not physically harmed.
Friends of the victims said the breakup was old news, but the “jealous” Paterson couldn’t take the rejection.
“They had broke up a long time, but he just couldn’t move on,” said Judith Bristol, who spoke through tears as she bought a candle to place at the scene of the crime. “So he decided to end their lives. She can’t have him, nobody else could have her.”
Kennely went by the nickname “Rhyno” and had two teenage kids, family said.
He would “give his heart up for anybody,” shocked friend Aron McCloud said shortly after the attack.
Police were investigating the killing early Friday.