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On Monday night, a 39-year-old New York City man committed suicide shortly after fatally shooting his wife, ex-wife and 6-year-old son, and NYPD sources confirm to PEOPLE a bitter custody battle may have been behind the violence. At about 9 p.m., police were summoned to the Astoria, Queens, apartment of James Shields after neighbors heard several gunshots. Inside the apartment, police found Shields dead from a pair of self-inflicted injuries: NYPD sources say he cut his own throat and shot himself. Deeper into the apartment, they found the bodies of his wife, 38-year-old Saskia Shields, his ex-wife, 47-year-old Linda Olthof, and their son, James Jr. All were shot to death, sources confirm. A note was found at the scene, according to sources. The sources confirm the note read, “I had a perfect life, and now it’s all screwed up.” Olthof and James Jr. were visiting Shields from the Netherlands, where they were living, the sources say. Shields had set up a GoFu

President Donald Trump’s latest head-scratching comment has lit up the internet. “You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, you need ID. You go out and you want to buy anything, you need ID and you need your picture,” Trump said at Tuesday night’s Tampa, Fla., rally to drum up support for GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis’ gubernatorial bid. He was – in the moment – throwing his support behind tougher ID requirements for voters. “Only American citizens should vote in American elections. The time has come for voter ID like everything else,” Trump said. He deployed that claim as he was saying that the only time people don’t need to present their identification card is when they want to place a vote. He may have been referring to stores that ask to see IDs from credit card holders, but the comment became the fodder for a Twitter-wide joke from people calling out that you don’t need to show your ID to get what you need at the supermarket