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Lawrence Mancuso, assistant dean for human resources at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, killed two family members and committed suicide on Friday in Brighton, New York, according to local authorities.
Mancuso was on a leave of absence since October and had worked at Cornell since February 2022, according to a University spokesperson. Community support meetings took place on Monday and Tuesday this week.
The University declined to give further comment or tell The Sun why Mancuso was on leave.
Brighton police say that Mancuso fatally shot his daughter Anne Mancuso, 11, and her maternal grandmother Mary Lachini, 74, before shooting and killing himself in Anne’s home on Hollyvale Dr.
The two adults’ bodies were found inside the house. Neighbors found Anne bleeding on their porch and alerted the authorities. Despite being rushed to the hospital, she succumbed to her wounds.
Investigators are still piecing together the full picture of what led up to this incident, according to Brighton Police Chief David Catholdi.
“We still have a couple things that we want to find out, but we may never know,” Catholdi told The Sun. “The ‘what’ and the ‘when’ and the ‘where,’ we pretty much can answer those things, but we may never know the ‘why’ — what would drive someone to do something like this?”
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