Brooklyn murder-suicide: NYPD cop killed her baby to relieve ‘burden’, police source says

– Officer Rosette Samuel’s boyfriend had planned to return to Guyana the day he was killed

According to the New York Daily News, An NYPD cop on a murderous rampage killed her baby so he wouldn’t “be a burden on him,” a police source said. A ripped-up suicide note investigators retrieved from a toilet in Officer Rosette Samuel’s Brooklyn apartment offers that bizarre reason for the year-old boy’s slaying.
NY Daily News had reported that before blowing Dylan Samuel Peters away with a shot to his little chest, the 43-year-old Samuel shot her Guyanese boyfriend, Dason Peters, dead. Her 19-year-old son from a previous relationship, Dondre Samuel, jumped out of a window and called cops.

In her suicide note, the cop source said, Samuel asked that someone care for her teenage son. Her motive for killing her 33-year-old boyfriend in her E. 56th St. home in Brooklyn could be as old as time. “There may have been an issue of another woman,” the source said.
Based on reports from NY Daily News, on Tuesday, Dason Peters’ mother said she can’t come to terms with the “evil” double murder and suicide that destroyed her family. “My child never said anything,” a distraught Rosemund Peters told the Daily News at her East Flatbush home, a block away from where Dason and Dylan Peters died in the Monday morning carnage.
Rosemund Peters, a nurse practitioner at SUNY Downstate, said her family barely knew their son’s girlfriend, who had 13 years on the job with the NYPD. “What she did was evil,” Rosemund said.
She called her son a generous soul, and her only grandson a loving and playful tot. “He was a sweet child. He wouldn’t cry in church. I would call him Dilly Dill and he would wink at me,” said the grieving grandmother.
Samuel fatally shot Peters about 8:20 a.m. Monday, cops said. The mortally wounded man fell face down in the hallway, covered in blood. Samuel then trained a 9-mm. Glock on the couple’s young son and shot him in the chest. She was found in her bed, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot, with her lifeless baby on her left and her gun near her right side.
No matter what was going on between the two adults, said Rosemund Peters, little Dylan would never have been cast aside. “I’d keep that child. I don’t know why she had to kill him,” she said. “The baby was the spitting image of my son.”
Rosemund Peters said she had worried about the baby boy living in the same home as a loaded gun. But her son — an MTA supervisor since 2001 — assuaged her fears. “He would say, ‘Yes, mom, she has a lock and key for that.’”
Peters had planned to go to Guyana Monday afternoon, his family said. It’s unknown if his impending trip contributed to Samuel’s unspeakable violence.
He was planning a two-week trip to Guyana, where he would stay with relatives and look at parcels of land for his family to purchase, said his mother, who hopes to retire in her native country.
He packed a suitcase at 4:30 a.m. the day of his death and left his mother’s home at 6 a.m. to go over to Samuel’s apartment to pick up baby Dylan while the officer went to work.
That was the last time Rosemund Peters saw her son. “As a mother, you don’t expect to see your child go in such a way. If you live by the sword, you die by the sword, but my child was not that type of child,” she said. (Excerpts from NY Daily News)