NEW YORK, United States – New York police say a Jamaican woman, frustrated over the demands of raising an autistic child, shot the boy to death before turning the gun on herself.

Police said 37-year-old Micaela Jackson and Kenneth Holmes, 12, were found in the bed of the single mother's apartment in the Bronx on Wednesday night with a single gunshot to their heads.

“I don't see the reason for any of this,” the child’s Jamaican father, Kenneth Holmes Sr, told reporters here.

“We were just getting ready to go to Jamaica, and now this,” he added.

Holmes, who was not married to Jackson, said he was shocked because Jackson had just been promoted at her job at Montefiore Medical Centre.

“She was at a good point in her life,” he added.

Holmes said his son was “a gift,” adding that, while he was autistic, “he had charm.”

Police said they responded to a call on Wednesday night from Jackson's sister, who was worried because she could not reach her.

Police said the door of the apartment was locked and fastened with a chain from the inside, strengthening investigators' belief that the deaths were a murder-suicide.

Police said a 9-mm pistol was recovered close to the bodies.

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