Tragedy in Queens: Father of Three Kills Brother, Injures Mother, and Commits Suicide

33-year-old Karamjit Multani (right) and 27-year-old Vipanpal Multani (left) with their sister.

A married father of three gunned down his own brother and injured their mother inside the family’s Queens home Saturday night before turning the gun on himself, police and sources reported.

Karamjit Multani, 33, stormed into his 27-year-old brother Vipanpal Multani’s room around 10:30 p.m. and opened fire, striking him in the torso. Karamjit then fled the South Richmond Hill home on 95th Street and 111th Avenue, according to police.

Vipanpal wasn't killed immediately but succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

He was later found a mile away with a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, with a gun next to his body, sources said. The brothers’ 52-year-old mother was grazed by a bullet and rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Vipanpal succumbed to his injuries at the scene, despite initial efforts to save him. “He told me, ‘Please, don’t let me die,'” a neighbor recalled to CBS News, describing how he ran into the home after the chaos erupted. “He died in my hands later.”

The apparent murder-suicide in Queens has rocked the South Asian community.

The shocking murder-suicide followed a quiet family evening that included a pizza dinner, according to the brothers’ devastated father. The motive behind Karamjit’s actions remains a mystery. “That we don’t know. I don’t know,” the father said, adding that Karamjit walked into his brother’s bedroom and immediately opened fire without warning.

Karamjit, who was financially stable and showed no signs of aggression, had not revealed to his family that he owned a gun. When asked about any issues between his sons, the grieving father said, “Not big problems. Sometimes little disagreements, no problems.”