Teen, 17, shot dead in alleged NYC love triangle murder-suicide

A young man has been identified as the victim of an apparent love triangle murder-suicide that took his life – and that of his attacker.

A teenage boy has been allegedly shot dead by his girlfriend’s jealous ex in a reported love triangle murder-suicide.

Neo Secaira, 17, left work early on Saturday to pick up his 19-year-old girlfriend in New York on Saturday night.

However he walked into a bloody murder-suicide that left him and US Marine Frank Liu, 28, dead while their mutual love interest looked on in horror, police and sources told the New York Post.

Police came upon the bloody scene in the busy city’s Bayside suburb shortly after 10pm, finding Secaira with a gunshot wound, the publication reported earlier.

Meanwhile Liu, who was about to be redeployed, was also dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

Neo Secaira, 17 was shot dead in alleged love triangle murder-suicide in New York on the weekend. Picture: Supplied

Photos posted on Secaira’s social media accounts show a smiling youngster with a crop of curly hair, while another pic shows the teen leaning up against a Big Apple storefront with a big grin on his face.

His distraught mum Yolanda Secaira revealed she was contacted early Sunday morning by the mother of her young son’s alleged killer.

“At 7:50 this morning, a woman rings my bell,” she told the New York Post.

“She asked me, she said, ‘Your son has curly hair?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ She said my son killed your son. I said, ‘What? Your son killed my son?’ She said yes.”

A 28-year-old man was also found dead from an apparent self-inflicted injury. Picture: Supplied

Secaira, 17, left work early on Saturday to pick up his 19-year-old girlfriend on Saturday night. Picture: Supplied

Liu was described as being upset at losing military pals in the Middle East before the shooting — a feeling compounded by his younger girlfriend’s recent change of heart.

“I say, why? It’s just one girl. There are many girls,” Huili Liu, the Marine’s father, said Sunday.

“The girl lived in my apartment for half a year. He spent quite a while with her. She decided to study here.”

Neighbours reportedly heard gun shots as the woman at the centre of the alleged incident ‘witnessed the carnage’. Picture: Supplied

While a neighbour said: “I heard the gunshots and then I heard a woman screaming, ‘Help, help’.

“My daughter was calling me and she was afraid. I went in and we looked and we saw a young woman, high school maybe college age... And we heard the shots.

“There are three in a row and then a pause, maybe 30 seconds, maybe a minute. And then at least one more gunshot.”

Both were rushed to New York Presbyterian Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

Their mutual love interest, who has not been identified, witnessed the carnage, sources said.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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