GRISLY AFTERMATH: City workers early yesterday remove a body from the Queens house where Everol Ellington (right) is believed to have killed his girlfriend and himself. (
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A Queens mom was fatally shot in the head by her younger lover, who then turned the gun on himself — leaving their 2-year-old toddler to find the bodies, police sources said.
“Mommy and Daddy are laying on the floor,’’ the child told his teenage brother after waking the older boy in another room of the family’s South Jamaica home at around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a neighbor.
The grisly murder-suicide occurred as Everol Ellington, 32, first shot Roxanne Lambert, 41, in the back of the head in their bedroom with a Springfield pistol before shooting himself.
After his baby brother woke him up, Lambert’s stricken 16-year-old son ran to a neighbor.
“He came over here and just basically told me [his parents] were dead. He asked my help, to call 911,” said neighbor Renee Bryan.
Lambert’s 18-year-old daughter showed up shortly afterward, “crying and saying she couldn’t believe it,” a family friend said.
Ellington and Lambert had met three years ago at the Brooklyn Development Disabilities Services Office, where she worked at a home for the mentally impaired, relatives and neighbors said.
Despite living with Lambert, Ellington was still married — and his estranged wife — who asked not to be identified — said there were hints of trouble between her ex-husband and his current gal pal.
“I know they had their problems,” the estranged wife said, adding that Ellington had asked her recently to leave some of his belongings at his house. “He just said he wanted to leave.”
The estranged wife said tha she said she last spoke to Ellington on Saturday, when he promised to come over to fix a broken pipe for her. He never showed up.
“I would love to know what went wrong,” she sobbed. “I couldn’t believe it. What am I going to tell my kids? My kids won’t have a father.”
Ellington’s sister said that she was shocked, and that her brother was a hardworking man.
“He was quiet. I would know if he had a temper,” insisted Donnette Ellington of Brooklyn.
Police said there was no documented history of domestic violence between the two.
Ellington had been arrested three times, most recently last year for criminal possession of stolen property.
The couple purchased the Queens home together in June for $342,500, using a loan for first-time buyers. Ellington was often seen fixing it up.
When Ellington wasn’t working as an orderly, he was in school, studying to become a mechanic, his estranged wife said.
“He doesn’t drink,” she said. “He doesn’t party. It was just work, school, and family.”