TROY — In the city's second lethal act of violence within 10 days, police say the estranged husband of a Lansingburgh woman blasted his wife of over 30 years using a shotgun, and then turned the weapon on himself.

Mark Sousie, 57, allegedly killed his wife, 54-year-old Lisa Sousie, and then shot himself in the head in an alleyway behind her home at 715 Fifth Ave., Assistant Police Chief Daniel DeWolf told reporters. The husband, who underwent surgery Monday afternoon at Albany Medical Center Hospital, was expected to be charged with murder.

Lisa Sousie was discovered by her son, who heard arguing followed by multiple shots. He also discovered his stepfather in the alleyway and called police, who arrived about 9:30 a.m., DeWolf said.

“It’s a horrific time. It’s a horrific scene,” DeWolf said.

DeWolf said the couple, who have children and grandchildren from past marriages, have been estranged for about six weeks. Lisa Sousie was living at the home. Police had recently been to the address on a previous incident; a domestic incident report had been filed, he said.

“The call itself is difficult because it’s really, really tragic,” DeWolf said. “There’s grandchildren now without a grandmother.”

Police tape blocked off Fifth Avenue between 120th Street and 119th Street.

Public records and an obituary show that Mark Sousie is the biological father of Daryl Sousie, who died from a shotgun wound during a burglary on Remsen Street in Cohoes on Aug. 5, 2018. The man whose home was being burglarized, Shawn Rogowski, fired his legally owned shotgun over a bed where his girlfriend's 11-month-old baby was sleeping. Daryl Sousie, who was hit in the stomach, died later at Samaritan Hospital. His brother, Andy Sousie, is serving a five-year sentence in prison for attempted burglary for his role in the break-in. District Attorney David Soares has said Daryl Sousie's killing was self-defense and justifiable.

Lisa Sousie was Troy's fourth homicide victim this year. A 3-year-old boy was allegedly killed by his babysitter earlier this month.

Monday's killing brings to light a sobering statistic: Over the past two years, all nine of the killings in Troy have claimed the lives of women or children, a number that includes the slaughter two years ago of two women and two children in a Lansingburgh apartment. The statistic runs counter to national trends, which show that for the past several years men have accounted for roughly three-quarters of homicide victims in the United States.

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On Sept. 17, the body of 19-year-old Beyonce Wint was found on Fourth Avenue just south of 111th Street in Lansingburgh. She had been shot once in the head. No arrests have been made in her death. Wint was 19 and had lived in Manhattan and Queens, but Troy police said she had no previous ties to Troy.

Brianna Haughton, a 21-year-old mother, was found dead Jan. 13 inside a home on Pawling Avenue. Rashad Edwards, 35, who was later charged with second-degree murder, is awaiting trial. Haughton is the only Troy homicide victim to die outside of the Lansingburgh neighborhood in the northern end of the city.

Last week, Daquan Parker, 20, 0f Schenectady, was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of 3-year-old Mayjor Douglas, who was beaten to death inside an apartment in the Corliss Park apartments in Lansingburgh.

On June 14, 2018, 21-month-old Jacquez Jackson died from blunt-force trauma. He was found at the 504 Seventh Ave. home he shared with his mother, Kiona B. Jackson, who was later charged with murder and manslaughter.

Lansingburgh was rocked by violence at Christmastime two years ago when Brandi Mells, 22; Shanta Myers, 36; and Myers' two children, Jeremiah Myers, 11, and Shanise Myers, 5, were killed in their 158 Second Ave. apartment on Dec. 21, 2017.

Their bodies were not found until days later. Justin Mann, 26, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder earlier this year but later asked a judge to let him take back his guilty plea. No decision has been made.

Mann's co-defendant, James White, 40, is charged with first-degree murder and other charges.







