North Babylon couple found shot to death!

Wow, I can't believe this happened only 5 minutes away from me.. :(

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OMG where was this?????????
(I'm in WB Nbab SD).

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sounds like a psycho

Police find couple shot to death in Babylon
Woman and abusive ex-boyfriend are found shot to death inside his home but cops aren't sure if he killed her.
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BY CHRISTINE ARMARIO
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April 23, 2007, 9:48 PM EDT

It seemed Erika Delia had every reason not to return to the basement apartment she shared with her ex-boyfriend.

David Balsamo, a one-time car dealer, had pushed her so hard last month that she broke through a closet door, her family said. When she tried to move out, he oiled the steps so she couldn't carry out belongings and he threatened her over the phone.

"If you go back to the house to get your things, you won't come out alive," he told her, according to a harassment complaint she filed against him.

Monday, that frightful forewarning came true, police and family members said.

Delia, 27, and Balsamo, 24, were found shot to death in the basement bedroom of 69 Foster Blvd. in Babylon about 7:20 a.m., Suffolk police said. Detectives believe both were killed with a shotgun that was recovered from the scene. They had not yet determined, however, whether Balsamo shot Delia, then killed himself, or, if in a suicide pact, she turned the gun on herself.

Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick, commanding officer of the Homicide Squad, said Balsamo's parents, who live in the upper portion of the well-kept white-and-green-shuttered home, heard the final shot ring out from outside the bedroom door.

Delia was discovered lying on the floor, Balsamo on his bed, Fitzpatrick said.

Fitzpatrick said police found some writing left behind, but it was unclear whether it was written by Delia or Balsamo and whether it constituted a suicide note.

Delia's family arrived at the scene shortly after the killings. Gina Marie Nettuno, 33, of West Babylon, said she drove to the house after hearing that her sister hadn't returned Sunday evening to the home of a relative with whom she was staying and never arrived Monday morning at the radiology office in Lindenhurst where she worked.

"It's not like her not to call anybody," Nettuno said, her voice cracking. "I just came here and this is what I saw."

As detectives entered and exited the home cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape, Nettuno recalled how her sister had struggled over the past month to free herself of Balsamo. They had been dating for about a year, she said, and lived together for the past nine months. Delia was pursuing a master's degree in education from the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, Nettuno said, while also working full time at Zwanger Perisi Radiology, where she scheduled appointments, friends said.

Then came the altercation in March. Nettuno said Delia went to the police station where officers took photographs of her bruises. She tried to move out on her own, but Balsamo had oiled the steps.

"They were slipping and sliding everywhere," Nettuno said.

Delia came back with police shortly after to remove her belongings. Balsamo was charged with aggravated harassment for threatening Delia on the phone on March 17. Two days later, Delia filed for an order of protection against Balsamo at First District Court in Central Islip.

Balsamo was ordered to stay away from Delia's home, school, business, or place of employment; to refrain from communication with her, and to surrender all weapons.

"There was an order of protection involved," Fitzpatrick confirmed Monday. "But apparently she has been coming back to the house since then."

What prompted Delia to visit Balsamo's home Sunday evening is still under investigation, Fitzpatrick said. And it's the question Delia's family kept asking Monday.

"I can't imagine why she came back," Nettuno said.

Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.

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it was on Foster Boulvard South

here is the story from News12

Relatives: Abusive ex killed N. Babylon woman PRINT ARTICLE




(04/23/07) BABYLON - Police are investigating what relatives are calling a murder-suicide in North Babylon Monday.

Although investigators are not saying much about the case, family members blame 26-year-old Erika Delia's ex-boyfriend for her death. Police say they found the bodies of Delia and 24-year-old David Balsamo in the basement apartment the pair onced shared on Foster Boulevard South.

Police confirm Balsamo's death was a suicide, but are witholding comment on whether Balsamo killed Delia or if she too committed suicide.

Relatives say Delia left the abusive Balsamo last month. "I don't know why she'd be back here ... Her job called looking for her," said Delia's tearful sister, Gina Marie Nettuno. She believes Balsamo killed her sister then himself.

Police are waiting for the results of an autopsy before announcing Delia's cause of death.

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OMG how horrible

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Wow, how sad.

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that's awful. so sad.

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A co-worker's husband worked with him, and she told me some chilling details about this guy.
He was very odd

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very sad, my friend worked with her and they were worried when she didn't show up for work.

Erika shared her troubles that she had with this guy with my friend, its so sad she could not get away from that psycho

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oiled the steps? what a psychotic idiot..their poor families

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That is Horrible!!!!!!!!!

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OMG thats horrible.

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You know what's scary?? Last night around 10:30 or so, we get a phone call from my grandma. Apparently my uncle had called my grandma all upset. It turns out that this guy was my cousins ex-boyfriend right before he dated this girl. My cousin is in shock and kept saying "That could've been me". My uncle always said how he was crazy and my cousin didn't want to see it at first. One day he got mad at her for some thing and smashed all of her music cds into tons and tons of pieces. Alls my family can say is thank gosh, but our hearts go out to the poor innocent girl. This is such a tragic story

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WOW THAT IS TERRIBLE.

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So tragic.....what goes through people's heads...

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Dh was called to that job. He said it was horrible.

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My heart goes out to her family. The whole thing is just so sad and so pointless. I'm very confident that this young woman did not kill herself.

Perhaps, if there were harsher consequences for acts of violence against a partner, we'd all be reading less of these stories. Just a thought.

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Posted by Arissa444

You know what's scary?? Last night around 10:30 or so, we get a phone call from my grandma. Apparently my uncle had called my grandma all upset. It turns out that this guy was my cousins ex-boyfriend right before he dated this girl. My cousin is in shock and kept saying "That could've been me". My uncle always said how he was crazy and my cousin didn't want to see it at first. One day he got mad at her for some thing and smashed all of her music cds into tons and tons of pieces. Alls my family can say is thank gosh, but our hearts go out to the poor innocent girl. This is such a tragic story