A quiet Little Neck, Queens neighborhood was shattered in October 1991 when a family massacre unfolded at a home on 254th Street. On October 13 police found multiple victims after a shooting by 47-year-old Andrew Brooks Jr. Among the dead that day were his 75-year-old father, Andrew Brooks Sr., and three other men identified as Brian Ducker, 30, Daniel Gantovnik, 23, and Michael Zarabi, 27; two other young men were critically wounded. The bodies of Andrew Brooks Sr. and Brian Ducker were found in a shed behind the house, indicating they may have been killed before the main attack.

After the initial killings, Andrew Brooks Jr. fled and took a psychiatrist and the psychiatrist’s wife hostage in Great Neck, leading to a 28-hour standoff during which he fired at officers. The standoff ended when Brooks Jr. died by a self-inflicted gunshot. Marion Brooks, 73, was missing for more than a month; her body was discovered on November 22, 1991, hidden in a basement drainage hole. An autopsy showed she had been shot once in the back, confirming she was also killed in the rampage.

Does anyone have additional information about Marion Brooks or the household at 254th Street that could shed light on the timeline of events that night?