{"id":1003584,"date":"2026-08-16T02:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1003584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T02:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:28:12","slug":"hempstead-double-shooting-ruled-a-murder-suicide-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1003584\/","title":{"rendered":"Hempstead double shooting ruled a murder-suicide, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/double-fatal-shooting-angevine-avenue-hempstead-nassau-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">double shooting in Hempstead<\/a> has been ruled a murder-suicide, Nassau County Police say.<\/p>\n<p>Two brothers were found dead from gunshot wounds inside their home on Angevine Avenue on Wednesday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, investigators said they had determined Garfield Adamson, 50, shot and killed David Adamson, 52, then fatally shot himself.<\/p>\n<p>Family members said the brothers were two of seven siblings.<\/p>\n<p>One sibling said both men lived with their parents. She told CBS News New York one brother cared for their parents and the other had a job at a church.<\/p>\n<p>The sister said her mother couldn&#8217;t get into her office Wednesday morning and called her for help. When the sister arrived at the home, she said she found both brothers dead on the first floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were good people, very loving people,&#8221; she said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was like a brother to me. He was everything,&#8221; said a childhood friend of Dave Adamson&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<p>A motive remains unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A double shooting in Hempstead has been ruled a murder-suicide, Nassau County Police say. Two brothers were found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1003585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,165529,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1003584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-hempstead","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117102831560059152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}