A renowned cancer doctor committed “murder-suicide,” according to the authorities, by killing herself and her infant in her $1 million Westchester home. Hematology-oncology specialist Dr. Krystal Cascetta, 40, worked at Mount Sinai in New York City.

According to ABC7, the horrifying incident happened at around 7 am on Saturday in the baby’s bedroom in the Westchester County town of Somers. The scene was “consistent with a murder/suicide,” according to the police.

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Police have not yet disclosed the baby’s age or gender, but a due date posted online suggests that Cascetta was due in March of this year. “Can you give us some time?” her 37-year-old husband Tim Talty said in a statement to Daily Mail. The couple got married in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 2019. It’s unknown if the couple has more kids.

A statement from state police said, “The New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) Somers are investigating a murder/suicide in the town of Somers. A preliminary investigation revealed that at approximately 7:00 a.m., Krystal Cascetta entered her child’s room and shot her baby and then turned the gun on herself. The scene is consistent with a murder/suicide.”

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Cascetta was a board-certified medical oncologist and hematologist In New York City who focused on breast cancer. She graduated from Albany Medical College with a doctorate in medicine, and there she was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society for exemplifying excellence in clinical humanism, leadership, compassion, and service commitment.

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Cascetta was referred to as a fitness enthusiast and ardent runner in her bio. The bio also claimed that she regularly found as a child wrapping her dolls in gauze and that becoming a doctor “was in her DNA.” It is said that the death of her mother’s best friend from breast cancer when she was in the eighth grade inspired her to pursue a profession in medicine.