A Long Island woman and her new partner were found shot to death inside their luxury mansion Wednesday night.
Police believe Daniel Coppola, 50, shot dead his ex-wife Kelly Coppola, 50, and her new boyfriend, 53-year-old Kenneth Pohlman while they slept inside their million-dollar mansion.
The suspect allegedly made his teen daughter leave the home before perpetrating the double murder.
“The daughter was in the house and he reached out to her and told her to get out of the house,” Detective Lt. Kevin Breyer said.
“He picked the girl up, put her in his car, committed the murders, drove her from there to Harbor Road,”
“As he’s driving her, she’s communicating with friends via text saying ‘I don’t know what my father did. I don’t know how my mother is.”
“They try to reach out to the mother, can’t get in touch with the mother, they call 911.”
Coppola and his ex-wife had a bitter divorce, police said.
He was arrested and taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation after he made suicidal statements.
