Mother Charged With Killing Twin Girls Found In Montauk: Cops

MONTAUK, NY — A Medford woman was charged with killing her 2-year-old twin daughters, who were found in cardiac arrest in car at a Montauk park Thursday afternoon, police said.

According to Suffolk County Police, the children were found at the Montauk County Park Third House Nature Center on Montauk Highway at 4:05 p.m.

A woman called 911 at 2:30 p.m. and told the operator her daughter, Tenia Campbell, 24, was threatening to kill herself and her daughters, police said.

Suffolk Police, assisted by New York State Police, Suffolk County park rangers, Southampton Town Police and East Hampton Town Police conducted a massive countywide search for her.

East Hampton officers located Campbell at the entrance of the Montauk County Park Third House Nature Center, police said. The officers took Campbell into custody and attempted lifesaving efforts on her two children, Jasmine and Jaida Campbell.

The children were taken by Montauk Ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital where they were pronounced dead. Police did not say how the twins died. The Suffolk County Medical Examiner will perform autopsies.

Tenia Campbell, of Long Island Avenue in Medford, was taken to East Hampton Town Police headquarters and charged by Suffolk County Homicide Squad detectives with two counts of second degree murder.

She was held overnight at the East Hampton Town Police headquarters and will be arraigned at East Hampton Town Justice Court on Friday.