Ma kills 3 kids, self
Son, 10, sees her drive into Hudson
By TIM PERONE
Posted: 2:52 AM, April 13, 2011
An upstate mother drove her minivan straight into the Hudson River last night -- killing herself and three of her young children in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.
The woman, whose name was not released, had earlier been involved in a domestic dispute.
The tragic youngsters were 2- and 5-year-old boys and an 11-month-old girl.
Moments before her shocking plunge, at around 8 p.m., the woman let her 10-year-old son exit the car.
The boy watched in horror as the car went off a boat ramp into the river.
The child ran to a nearby fire station and alerted firefighters, Chief Michael Vatter said.
Newburgh Police Chief Michael Ferrara said the tragedy took place 10 minutes after cops responded to the family's home for a domestic incident, the Times Herald-Record said.
But when cops arrived at the William Street apartment -- a few blocks from where the vehicle was later found -- no one was home.
Emergency responders searched for about an hour before finding the vehicle, submerged at the end of the ramp.
The four occupants were dead.
"It's a horrible sight, all of them in the car," Ferrara told the paper.
The incident was eerily similar to the notorious Susan Smith murders.
In 1994 she made headlines when she rolled her car into a South Carolina lake with her two young sons trapped inside.
She is serving a life sentence in their deaths.
tim.perone@nypost.com
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