A Long Beach man fatally shot his ex-girlfriend before turning the gun on himself in her Bay Shore apartment while five children were in the home Wednesday night, Suffolk County police said.

Officers responded to a call of a shooting at an apartment complex on Brook Avenue and upon arrival they found 43-year-old James Snead and his former girlfriend, Karolyn Encarnacion, 42, both dead of gunshot wounds at 11:43 p.m., police said.

Snead was with Encarnacion at her apartment when the two entered her bedroom, police said.


advertisement Encarnacion's daughters, ages 12 and 14, were in the apartment with three of their friends when they heard a woman scream and shots fired in the bedroom, police said. The children left the apartment and a neighbor called police.

Homicide Squad detectives are continuing the investigation.