{"id":322383,"date":"2026-08-16T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322383\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:42:08","slug":"hempstead-double-shooting-ruled-a-murder-suicide-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322383\/","title":{"rendered":"Hempstead double shooting ruled a murder-suicide, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/double-fatal-shooting-angevine-avenue-hempstead-nassau-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">double shooting in Hempstead<\/a> has been ruled a murder-suicide, Nassau County Police say.<\/p>\n<p>Two brothers were found dead from gunshot wounds inside their home on Angevine Avenue on Wednesday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, investigators said they had determined Garfield Adamson, 50, shot and killed David Adamson, 52, then fatally shot himself.<\/p>\n<p>Family members said the brothers were two of seven siblings.<\/p>\n<p>One sibling said both men lived with their parents. She told CBS News New York one brother cared for their parents and the other had a job at a church.<\/p>\n<p>The sister said her mother couldn&#8217;t get into her office Wednesday morning and called her for help. When the sister arrived at the home, she said she found both brothers dead on the first floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were good people, very loving people,&#8221; she said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was like a brother to me. He was everything,&#8221; said a childhood friend of Dave Adamson&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<p>A motive remains unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A double shooting in Hempstead has been ruled a murder-suicide, Nassau County Police say. Two brothers were found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28008,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-322383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-hempstead","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}