{"id":53862,"date":"2025-11-27T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53862\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:18:08","slug":"teen-shoots-ex-girlfriend-to-death-in-long-island-home-then-turns-gun-on-himself-but-survives-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53862\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen shoots ex-girlfriend to death in Long Island home, then turns gun on himself &#8212; but survives: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teen shot his ex-girlfriend dead inside his Long Island home Wednesday before turning the gun on himself \u2014 and surviving, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified 17-year-old gunned down his ex-girlfriend, Emily Finn, 18, inside his home in Nesconset around 11:10 a.m. on Wednesday, the Suffolk County Police Department said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The teen boy then shot himself in the face, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.63317384;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37778016\" width=\"964\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/112625shooting3jm.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer and another man stand near cars parked in a yard.\" class=\"wp-image-37778016\"  \/>An unidentified 17-year-old fatally shot his ex-girlfriend, Emily Finn, 18, inside his Nesconset home before turning the gun on himself. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n<p>His parents called 911 after the shots rang out, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Finn, who had just graduated from Sayville High School in June,was tragically pronounced dead on the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>She had gone to her ex-boyfriend\u2019s home to return some of his belongings following their recent breakup, Suffolk County Det. Lt. Kevin Beyrer, commanding officer of the department\u2019s homicide bureau,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greaterlongisland.com\/west-sayville-teen-emily-finn-killed-nesconset-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">confirmed to Greater Long Island.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old boy was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital in critical but stable condition, authorities added. <\/p>\n<p>He will be charged with second-degree murder and arraigned at a later date, cops said. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.48191027;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37778018\" width=\"874\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/112625shooting4jm.jpg\" alt=\"Suffolk County police vehicles with flashing lights and officers at a scene.\" class=\"wp-image-37778018\"  \/>Finn was pronounced dead on the scene, and the 17-year-old was taken to the hospital in critical but stable condition.  James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n<p>There was no \u201cdomestic history\u201d between the teens or 911 calls at the Nesconset house, involving Finn or the gunman, police said at the scene, according to the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor told The Post that the teen\u2019s family was a \u201ctypical\u201d household and involved with the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just a great, typical community-involved family. They\u2019re a normal family, and now multiple families will be destroyed by this,\u201d the resident, who wished not to be identified, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another neighbor, who did not know the family personally,\u00a0 was shocked to hear of the incident occurring so close to home and on the day before Thanksgiving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s terrible. It\u2019s sad, and you never think it will hit so close to home. It\u2019s crazy,\u201d the neighbor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing, and a motive is not yet clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen shot his ex-girlfriend dead inside his Long Island home Wednesday before turning the gun on himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[776,57,238,9,11,10,773],"class_list":{"0":"post-53862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-long-island","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-murders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-suffolk-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862","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=53862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}