Crime & Safety

Westchester High School Grad Shot to Death

Area news crews flocked to Sleepy Hollow High School today, soon after the story broke that a recent graduate had been killed on Long Island. 

Andrea Rebello, 21, a 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School graduate, was shot to death early this morning during an alleged home invasion of the place she shared with her identical twin Jessica and other sorority sisters attending Hofstra University, reported the New York Daily news today.

The Rebello family lives in Tarrytown, where the Journal News tracked down a tearful, shocked and heartbroken father. Fernando Rebello told LoHud.com this afternoon, “It’s my daughter, my baby daughter... She was so beautiful." 

SHHS principal Carol Conklin-Spillane described the girls in high school to the Journal News as "each other's best friends." She said, "She's a lovely young woman; she and her sister were terrific kids all through high school... We are just heartbroken."

Both a masked gunman and Rebello were killed after police responded to the off-campus home responding to a call for a break-in. 

"Police acknowledged that officers opened fire inside the two-story home couldn’t confirm who fired the bullets that killed the popular college student and her unidentified captor," reported the New York Daily News.


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