An Upstate New York nurse with a “beautiful soul” was killed by her husband in a murder-suicide just hours after returning from a family reunion, according to police and her family.
Gabrielle Forman, 30, was shot dead by 37-year-old Jadet Forman — with whom she was in the process of divorcing — with a so-called ghost gun in their second-floor apartment in Cohoes, just outside Albany, on Tuesday afternoon, NEWS10 reported.
“We can confirm that this was a murder-suicide. It’s clear that the husband shot his wife before turning the gun on himself,” Cohoes Mayor Bill Keeler told a press conference Wednesday.
Gabrielle, who worked at a hospital in Saratoga, had only hours earlier returned from a trip to Georgia to celebrate her mother’s birthday and her sister going off to college.
“We just can’t believe she’s gone. She was just here,” her godmother, Angelia Major, told NEWS10. “There is no explanation for it. We can’t even make sense of it.”
The nurse — who was training to become a practitioner and open her own clinic — was on a FaceTime call with her mother when her husband stormed in and snatched the phone to end the call, her cousin told WRGB.
Her worried mother asked Gabrielle’s brother to check on her — and he heard gunfire while heading to the apartment, the cousin said.
The couple had been married just two years and were going through a divorce, the cousin said.
She was “beautiful, smart, loving, caring,” her grieving father, Owen Sterling, told NEWS10.
“She’s just a beautiful soul. Cannot ask for a better daughter.”
Jadet Forman used an illegal ghost gun to kill his wife and then himself, with cops still investigating how he got it.
“The firearm would be illegal for anyone to own because it does not have a serial number on it,” Cohoes Police Chief Todd Waldin told Wednesday’s press conference.
“It can be manufactured by putting together parts that you order through the mail and combine it and create yourself,” he added.
He had no criminal history and there had been no previous 911 calls to the apartment, despite his wife’s family claiming he had previously been violent.
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