A man shot his wife and two daughters and then turned the gun on himself in Queens this morning in an apparent murder-suicide — even leaving a note behind saying he was “sorry” for commiting the gruesome crime, police sources said.
Cops discovered the four bodies at 145-20 230th Place in Springfield Gardens after the father, Mark Bailey, a bus driver in Nassau County, shot his family in their bedrooms, police said.
Bailey was found in chair in the main room. All four had gunshot wounds to the head with a 9mm pistol.
A note was also found in the kitchen, where Baily wrote, “I am sorry. Love, Mark,” according to police sources.
His wife, Dionne, 42, was an assistant principal at Philip Randolph High School.
One daughter, 19-year-old Yonique, was a student at Stony Brook University and the other, 14-year-old Yolon, was a student at Cardozo High School.
The family moved to this country from Jamaica nearly 20 years ago.
Cops were called after colleagues of Dionne Bailey came to pick her up for work and no one answered the door.
Dionne was supposed to get a ride from her sister and co-worker, Dorrett Combs, at about 7 a.m., but she never showed up and no one answered the door or phone.
That prompted her brother-in-law and a family friend to go to the home. When they couldn’t get in, they called cops.
Cops left, saying they couldn’t do anything.
Dionne’s brother-in-law, who did not want to give his name, then peeked into an open window and saw one of the dead bodies.
“I looked in and saw someone under the covers,” he said. “I reached in and felt a leg and felt it was kind of stiff.”
The friend he was with saw blood on the pillow and called police.
Cops then kicked down the front door and found Mark Bailey dead in the a living room chair.
Dionne’s sister, Angela Brooks, said that the couple had had a fight recently, although she did not know what it was about.
She said the argument prompted her sister to stay with a friend until she cooled off.
“He was very friendly. He was always willing to help that’s what makes this a little more shocking,” she said.