A man from Chile shot his girlfriend and two kids — killing one of the victims — in Westchester County, then sparked a manhunt that forced a school district to close before he was nabbed Tuesday, officials say.
Fernando Jimenez, 40, allegedly shot the trio— his gal pal and two boys, ages 14 and 16 — in a townhouse at an apartment complex near the Crossroads Plaza on Route 6 in Somers around 11:30 p.m. Monday, according to law-enforcement sources and ABC 7.
Authorities rushed two of the victims to Westchester Medical Center and brought the third to New York Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital, the station said. One of the victims died, sources said.
Jimenez fled the scene, and New York State Police put out a shelter-in-place order for Westchester County, forcing the Putnam Valley School District to close Tuesday as officers searched for the trigger-happy killer, a Chilean national, sources said.
Cops caught up with the suspect about 11 a.m. Tuesday in a local deli he’d just burglarized, according to sources and reports.
