Shooting deaths rock Perinton neighborhood

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'PERINTON -- To the neighbors who knew her as Penny, she was a social coordinator and a breezy mom, passing out tea lights for their porches and windows this time of year.

On Wednesday, the wooded neighborhood in which she had become a fixture was illuminated by the flashing lights of a sheriff's deputy's squad car.

In the finished basement of her family's home on Red Fox Run on Wednesday morning, police say, Penelope Luddy, 53, killed her 10-year-old daughter, Alexandra; her father, Harold Bertram, 79; and herself with a shotgun.

About 8:30 a.m., she'd sent her husband, Michael Luddy, 57, to check on an ailing relative. When he returned home at 9:45, he found his wife dead and his daughter and father-in-law shot.

There were signs of a struggle, Monroe County Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Bertram, conscious but severely injured, survived long enough to tell police what happened. He and his granddaughter had each been shot twice, and died at Strong Memorial Hospital.

Into the evening, neighbors struggled to come to terms with the tragedy as they mourned the loss of a girl, her grandfather and the woman who was their mother, daughter and apparent killer.

"The woman we knew was completely selfless," said John Storrar, whose son went to school with Alexandra and whose wife ran an informal neighborhood group known as the Hunters Run Women's Club with Penny.'