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Neighbor reacts to Bayonne shootings
Ronald Prezioso of Bayonne
reacts to Monday night's triple murder-suicide. Four people including a
baby were shot and killed in the incident that resulted from a domestic
dispute. A fifth victim was wounded and taken to Bayonne Medical Center
. (Video by Adya Beasley / The Star-Ledger)
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The fifth victim was apparently a live-in baby sitter hired by Kenia
Collado, according to Moukdad. The prosecutor identified her as a
25-year-old woman.

The neighborhood was swarming with activity Monday night, as police
went door to door, talking with neighbors. Area residents milled around,
trying to dissect what happened.

Two family members came to the house, started crying and were allowed to enter.

The shootings occurred around 8 p.m. Police responded to a call of
shots being fired at 96 Avenue A, and found a woman outside the house
suffering from a gunshot wound, officials said in an interview with The
Jersey Journal. The woman spoke little English but was able to convey to
the officers that there were more people shot inside the home,
officials said.

When police entered the house, they found a man and a woman shot
dead, officials said. A boy, who was 1 to 1½ years old, had also been
shot and was rushed to the hospital, but did not survive, officials
said.

Adepso Collado apparently held an associates degree in nursing,
according to an article published in the Jersey Journal in May, and was
honored during an event sponsored by the Think student newspaper at
Liberty Science Center.

It was not clear whether the man was dead when police arrived or whether he shot himself after police had entered the home.

About 15 to 20 shots altogether were fired, and police believe a gun
recovered at the scene was the one used in the killings, officials said.

Around the neighborhood, stunned residents were trying to get a handle on what had happened.

Has Jones, 30, said he heard the gunfire. "I heard four shots and
then it stopped, and then I heard screaming and then three more shots,"
he said.

Jones, who lives about 50 feet from the house where the shooting took place, said the person screaming was a woman.

Nicole Poesl, 33, who walked several blocks from her home to the
scene Monday night, said she saw a police officer exit the house,
cradling a young girl in his arms.

She said she asked police: "What’s going on? Murder-suicide?" and an officer shook his head, "yes."

Some residents said a "lady with two kids" lived in the home.

Late Monday evening, a gray Maxima was towed away from where it had
been parked, a half-block away, under the overpass to the bridge.

At Bayonne Medical Center, where the only survivor was taken, a young
man sobbed violently outside, after waiting for hours with family. The
man, a hood over his head, crouched between support pillars and rocked
back and forth. He held his hands to his ears, shouting "no" between
sobs.

A strong police presence remained at the hospital late Monday. A
half-dozen patrolmen waited at the emergency room entrance, passing bits
of information to mourners gathered outside.

4 dead in Bayonne murder-suicide are identified
Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 2:32 PM Updated: Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 3:51 PM

Star-Ledger Staff


Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal

The second of three bodies in a murder-suicide
is carried out of 96 Avenue A in Bayonne at 1:43 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec.
6, 2011. Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal
Bayonne Murder Suicide gallery (30 photos)

BAYONNE — Four people,
including a baby, were shot and killed in Bayonne Monday night in what
police are describing as a triple murder-suicide that erupted from a
domestic dispute, according to neighbors, a Hudson County official and a
law enforcement document obtained by The Star-Ledger.

According to Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Tim Moriarty, the
gunman was identified as 28-year-old Adepso Collado. The 28-year-old
apparently shot his estranged wife, 26-year-old Kenia Collado,
31-year-old Jose Guzman and Guzman's 14-month old son Matthew, according
to Moriarty .

Two other children were inside the home at the time of the slaughter,
but they escaped unharmed according to Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith and the
prosecutor's e-mail.

A fifth victim was wounded and rushed to Bayonne Medical Center where
she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries after the shootings,
which occurred in a small, white ranch house on Avenue A, in a
neighborhood in the shadow of the Bayonne Bridge.

Adepso and Kenia Collado had been estranged for roughly six months,
according to the couple's former employer, Jihad Moukdad, who identified
Jose Guzman as Kenia Collado's "boyfriend."


FacebookBayonne shooting victims Jose Guzman, 31, and his 14-month old son, Matthew.


Smith, who was at the scene late Monday night, said initial reports
indicated that one person did all the shooting, first firing at two
adults, then the infant, and then turning the gun on himself.

"It is a tragedy and a senseless loss of life for the family and the community as a whole," the mayor said.

Two of the victims died of gunshot wounds at the scene, according to
the police document, and the gunman also died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound inside the Avenue A home.


For The Star-LedgerKenia
Collado, a 26-year-old woman who was fatally shot by her husband Monday
night in Bayonne, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor.

Moukdad said he had known Kenia Collado since she was 18, describing
her as his "right hand woman." Kenia Collado worked at his Secaucus
office roughly eight years, serving as a phlebotomist and technology
consultant. The doctor said Adepso Collado had also worked there as a
phlebotomist for a number of years, but had recently completed a nursing
degree and left the office to become a dialysis nurse.

According to Moukdad, the Collados had separated roughly six months
ago and were going through a divorce. During that same time period,
Kenia Collado became involved with Jose Guzman, and Moukdad said he
warned the young woman not to bring her boyfriend around her former
husband.

"I know that because I told her many times, five or six times, don’t
let the boyfriend around your kids," Moukdad said. "She was still
married, she’s separated but not divorced."

Moukdad described Adepso Collado as "calm and soft-spoken."

"He never spoke unless you spoke to him," Moukdad said. "But I don’t know what happened when they are not here."

Kenia Collado leaves behind three daughters, according to Moukdad,
who last saw the 26-year-old around 2 p.m. Monday, when she left work
early to drive her one-year-old and her mother to the airport for a
three-month vacation to the Dominican Republic.



Police investigating murder-suicide in Bayonne
Police responding to an
emergency call about shots fired at a home on Avenue A in Bayonne Monday
night found a grisly murder scene, with four people shot to death --
among them an infant. The circumstances of the shootings are not yet
known, but it's believed the shooter turned the gun on himself.
Investigators remained at the scene into the early morning hours on
Tuesday, while family members of the victims gathered at Bayonne medical
center, where a fifth victim was recovering. (Video by Nyier Abdou/The
Star-Ledger)
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