Relatives and friends of a New Orleans family are left trying to reconcile their grief and anger after they say a family member shot and killed his mother and her longtime partner before turning the gun on himself at their Pines Village home Sunday afternoon.

The Orleans Parish Coroner's Office on Wednesday identified the victims as Zennitria Stevenson, 50, and Esvin Carrera, 55.

Family members said the gunman was Stevenson's 31-year-old son, Jarrell Stevenson. He died Sunday after he was taken to a hospital with self-inflicted gunshot wounds, according to the New Orleans Police Department which is investigating the case as a double murder-suicide.

"He killed his mama first, and then he went inside and shot my dad," said Carrera's son, Alexander Carrera, 18.

Relatives called Zennitria

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