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The New York Post reported Andrea Cantarini and Juan Cornelio Diaz were found fatally shot in a Riverdale apartment.

Patrick Reilly, Sidney Blasco, and Natalie O'Neill reported Nov. 4, 2026, that the two were found around 9 p.m. Tuesday with fatal gunshot wounds to their heads, and that sources said Diaz shot Cantarini and then himself. amNewYork puts the address at 3950 Blackstone Ave. and the time at just after 9 p.m. Newsweek puts the 911 call at about 9:04 p.m.

By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·

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Around 9 p.m., on the Post, just after 9 p.m., on amNewYork and News 12, and about 9:04 p.m., on Newsweek, are not the same clock. Cantarini's apartment, on the Post, and an address where Newsweek says both lived, are not the same residence line. Stationed at JFK, on the Post, and an officer from the New York Field Office, in the CBP statement, are not the same assignment. The child is not named.

The New York Post, by Patrick Reilly, Sidney Blasco, and Natalie O'Neill, published Nov. 4, 2026, and updated Nov. 4, 2026, at 1:45 p.m. ET, reported a Bronx nurse and her federal agent boyfriend were found shot dead in a Riverdale apartment Tuesday night in an apparent murder-suicide, according to police and sources. It reported Andrea Cantarini, 37, and Juan Cornelio Diaz, 38, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer stationed at JFK airport, were found with fatal gunshot wounds to their heads inside Cantarini's apartment on Blackstone Avenue in Riverdale around 9 p.m., and it attributed that account to the NYPD. It reported sources said Diaz shot and killed Cantarini before turning the gun on himself, and that police believe the violence erupted during a domestic dispute. It reported sources said police rushed to the apartment around 9 p.m. after a call from Cantarini's father, who claimed her boyfriend was trying to kill her, and that a gun was recovered. It reported a neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said the couple had a young daughter. The child is not named here. amNewYork, by Dean Moses, posted November 4, 2026, with no clock on the byline, reported a suspected murder-suicide just after 9 p.m. on Nov. 3 inside an apartment at 3950 Blackstone Ave. in Riverdale. It reported sources said a father dialed 911 after a phone call in which he overheard his daughter screaming and what sounded like three gunshots, and that the boyfriend could be heard saying, "It's over for her." It reported officers from the 50th Precinct found Cantarini, 37, a nurse, in the bedroom of her fifth-floor apartment with a gunshot wound to the head, and Diaz, 38, also shot in the head, and that both were pronounced dead at the scene. It reported the firearm believed to have been used was recovered. Around 9 p.m., on the Post, and just after 9 p.m., on amNewYork, are not the same clock. Blackstone Avenue, with no number, on the Post, and 3950 Blackstone Ave., a fifth-floor bedroom, on amNewYork, are not the same address line. "It's over for her," and three gunshots, are amNewYork. They are not in the Post story fetched here.

Newsweek, by Billal Rahman, published Nov. 5, 2026, at 11:50 a.m. EST, reported an NYPD spokesperson said the two people who died were Andrea Cantarini and Juan Cornelio Diaz, 38, and that CBP confirmed one of its officers was involved and described an apparent murder-suicide. It reported officers responded to a 911 call reporting an assault inside an apartment on Blackstone Avenue at about 9:04 p.m. Tuesday, that both had a gunshot wound to the head, and that both were pronounced dead at the scene. It reported the two people who were found "lived at the address." Lived at the address, on Newsweek, and Cantarini's apartment, on the Post, are not the same residence line. The Post also reported a neighbor said the couple had lived next door for a decade and moved last month to a bigger place in a building next door. Moved last month, on the Post, is not a sentence on the Newsweek page. Newsweek reported Cantarini's father, retired NYPD officer Rudy Cantarini, told the Post that his daughter called him at 8:47 p.m. and was begging for her life, and that when Newsweek contacted him he declined an interview and referred to those comments. The Nov. 4 Post story fetched here says her father and does not print the name Rudy or 8:47 p.m. 8:47 p.m., on Newsweek's account of the Post, and around 9 p.m., on the Post story fetched here, are not the same clock. Newsweek reported the Post said she worked as a nurse at St. Barnabas Hospital. That hospital is not in the Nov. 4 Post story fetched here. News 12 reported the NYPD said the shooting happened just after 9 p.m. Tuesday in an apartment complex on Blackstone Avenue in Riverdale, that officers found a 38-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman with gunshot wounds to the head, and that both were pronounced dead on the scene. It reported sources said the man shot the woman and then himself, and that police identified Andrea Cantarini and Juan Cornelio Diaz. It reported neighbors said the couple's child was not in the apartment. The child is not named here. CBP's statement, as the Post and Newsweek both printed it, says the agency is aware of an apparent murder/suicide incident involving one of its officers from the New York Field Office, that it is cooperating, and that it defers additional questions to the New York Police Department. Stationed at JFK, in the Post's identification of Diaz, and an officer from the New York Field Office, in that statement, are not the same assignment line. The statement does not print JFK.

What she did for work is not one description. The Nov. 4 Post story and amNewYork call her a nurse. A Post caption calls her a Bronx Community College nursing graduate. Newsweek reported a 2025 CUNY post described her as an aspiring registered nurse who was completing that college's nursing program and working part-time as a mental health worker at a psychiatric hospital, and that she planned to take the licensing exam that summer. An aspiring nurse, in a 2025 post, and a nurse, in the November 2026 stories, are not the same job line. Newsweek says the page disclosed that its reporters and editors used an AI assistant to produce the story. The CBP quotation and the 9:04 p.m. time are still attributed to a CBP spokesperson and to police on that page. Newsweek reported no arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing. amNewYork says the investigation remains ongoing. The Post says the shooting remains under investigation. No arrests, on Newsweek, is a status for two people those pages say were pronounced dead. It is not a charge. The accounts of who fired are attributed to police and to sources. They are not a completed case. The child is not named. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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