Man in Westchester murder-suicide worked for LI DA

CROSS RIVER, N.Y.

Bob Clifford, spokesman for District Attorney Thomas Spota, says /*Sam Friedlander*/ worked as an assistant district attorney from 1992 to 1994.

State police said Wednesday that the 50-year-old Friedlander beat his wife to death, killed his children in their beds with a shotgun and then killed himself in their /*Cross River*/ home.

Autopsy results released Thursday support that account. Police say medical examiners found gunshots to be the cause of death for Friedlander and his children, 10-year-old Molly and 8-year-old Gregory. They say 46-year-old /*Amy Friedlander*/ died from bludgeoning.

Police say they are trying to determine how and where Sam Friedlander obtained the shotgun.

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