A suicide be aware penned by the terminally sick grandmother who gunned down her daughter-in-law after which herself on an Higher East Aspect avenue gives stunning new perception into her troubled thoughts, law-enforcement sources revealed Monday.
The 7-page be aware present in Kathleen Leigh’s pocket after the horrifying murder-suicide final week detailed her affected by most cancers and dangerous blood with sufferer Marisa Galloway, 45, whom she fatally shot twice in entrance of a child, sources mentioned.
Leigh, 65, ranted that Galloway tried to alienate her 4-year-old daughter from Leigh’s son, the lady’s father, sources mentioned, describing the contents of the letter, which was scrawled with the phrases “For Police.”
She additionally wrote that nobody believed her and her son’s contentions that Galloway abused the kid — an accusation twice discovered to be unfounded by metropolis little one’s companies investigators.
The 4-year-old lady was the topic of a long-running and bitter custody dispute between Galloway, a particular training trainer, and Leigh’s son that included allegations of abuse by each side.
Leigh had continuously complained to neighbors within the East 79th Avenue constructing the place she lived the final three years along with her son that Galloway abused the kid.
Past being unsupported by two Administration for Youngsters’s Providers investigations, the accusation didn’t sq. with the portrait from associates and neighbors of Galloway as a loving, doting mom bedeviled by a tumultuous previous relationship along with her ex.
The lady is now in Leigh’s son’s custody because the NYPD continues to analyze the murder-suicide, sources mentioned.
She was additionally along with her dad when her grandmother executed Galloway alongside a tree-lined avenue only a half block from Gracie Mansion simply earlier than 9 a.m. on Friday, in accordance with sources.
Right here is the most recent on Kathleen Leigh, the lady who shot and killed her ex-daughter-in-law on the Higher East Aspect:
Police imagine Leigh, a retired probation officer from Chicago, acted alone within the killing and don’t have any proof that her son knew something about his mom’s cold-blooded plan, in accordance with sources.
A baby’s pure father usually obtains custody primarily based on the “finest pursuits of the kid” below New York regulation, until authorities have a foundation for concern for the child, mentioned Jordan Messeri, a household regulation lawyer and skilled who will not be concerned within the case.
Galloway’s different little one — a 1-year-old lady whose father was a sperm donor, in accordance with sources — was in a close-by automotive when Leigh twice shot Galloway moments after the mother of two had loaded the child right into a parked white Honda Civic, police mentioned.
The lady is now along with her maternal grandparents, Galloway’s mother and father, in New Jersey, sources mentioned.
Galloway’s brother answered the door on the household dwelling Sunday as his mother and father sat behind him. He informed a Put up reporter “We don’t have any remark” in a well mannered and unhappy tone earlier than closing the door.
The Put up couldn’t attain Leigh’s son for remark. His attorneys didn’t return repeated requests for remark.
— Extra reporting by Kevin Sheehan
