A elderly East Hampton man shot his wife in the head today and then turned the gun on himself on a street of million-dollar homes, police said.
After getting 911 calls at 5:52 a.m., cops broke open the door of the home of Lester and Georgina Stockel on Cedar Trail Road and found the couple, both 64, in an upstairs bedroom, according to East Hampton cops.
The husband died of a bullet wound to the right side of the head.
A 9 mm semi-automatic handgun was found at the house.
The wife, who also had a gunshot wound in the head, was still alive when police arrived.
She was rushed to Southampton Hospital. From there, she was transferred to Stony Brook University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead just before 9:20 a.m.
Neighbors said the Stockels were weekend Hamptons residents who lived in New Jersey.
They said they had never heard any arguing or disturbances from the house.
“They seemed to be very nice, normal people,” said a woman who lives across the street. “It’s very disturbing.”
The couple had two grown sons, Lester Jr., 40, and Christopher, 28.
Todd Sarris, the East Hampton Town police chief, said the husband had placed two 911 calls and hung up and then called back a third time to report that shots had been fired at the home.
Sarris said he believed Stockel had made the calls so the bodies would be found.
The chief said there had been no previous 911 calls from the address or reports of domestic violence.