The Rochester area man who shot and killed his 11-year-old daughter and her grandmother last Friday was an administrator with Cornell University.
Lawrence Mancuso was the assistant dean of Human Resources at Cornell’s Industrial and Labor Relations School. The Ithaca Voice reports Mancuso had been on leave since October for an undisclosed reason.
According to Brighton Police, Mancuso purchased alcohol at a store last Friday morning at 9 and then went to a relative’s home and stole firearms believed to have been used in the incident. Police were called to a home on Hollyvale Drive in Brighton later that afternoon for the report of a young child unresponsive on the front porch. Anne Mancuso later died of gunshot wounds at the hospital. The bodies of her father and grandmother, Mary Liccini, were found inside an adjacent home on the same street. Four handguns were recovered, one inside of the home and three inside of a car.
Lawrence Mancuso lived on Eastbrook Lane in Brighton, Liccini lived in Avon and Anne Mancuso lived on Hollyvale Drive.
Police confirmed that were called to the Hollyvale Drive home the day before the shootings for a custodial matter.
This is not the first time in recent months that a Cornell employee has been investigated for murder. In November, custodian Ahmed Abed confessed to killing his wife at a home in the 400 block of South Plain Street in Ithaca and was indicted on second-degree murder charges by a grand jury in December.
