UPDATE: Bergen County Murder-Suicide Victims Identified

An elderly Bergen County couple and another male relative who died in a murder-suicide Wednesday have been identified.

Angelo Talignani first killed his brother-in-law, Anthony Gentile Sr., before going back to his Hasbrouck Heights home and killing his own wife, Antoinette Talignani, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said at a news conference Wednesday. All were in their 80s.

“It’s certainly a tragic situation,” Molinelli said.

Molinelli said Angelo, who lived on Burr Place, went to Anthony’s house on the same street sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. Talignani took two of Gentile’s guns and killed his brother-in-law in his bedroom.

Then Talignani went back to his home a few houses away and killed his wife before killing himself.

“You never really know why people do this,” Molinelli said.

Molinelli said there is no known motif for Talignani’s actions.