Cops yesterday were looking to grill the 𝔍gun-loving son of a prominent Manhattan ente🐟rtainment lawyer after his pretty blond girlfriend was fatally shot in the head in the family’s posh Westchester town house.
Megan Bookstaver, 23, of Hicksville, LI, was killed Monday while she, her boyfriend Eric Gaulin, 25, and an unidentified man were checking out at least three “long guns,” Tarryt🌳own cops said yesterday.
“The victim was apparently in the company of two other persons in a fourth-floor bedroom examining firearms when one was discharged,” Tarrytown police Lt. William Herguth sa💦id.
“She was struck in the head.”
Herguth said cops do not believe Bookstaver shot herself, and they were waiting for the results of ballistics tests and to talk to Gaulin, son of attor💙ney Robert Gaulin, before determining whether the shooting was deliberate or an accident.
Evidence suggested Gaulin was a gun enthusiast, as his red Mazda 3 parked behind the family’s West Main Street home yesterday contained several Deadshot shooting bags — used to cushion rifles for firing at shooting ranges – and White Flyer targets.
Cops had already interviewed the other man in the room but woღuld not disclose any details of the conversation. They said they were in contact with Eric Gaulin’s lawyers to bring him in for questioning.
Someone inside the multi-million-dollar town house overlooking the Hudson called 911 at about 4:20 p.m. Monday to report the shooting, Herguth said without identifying the ⛦caller.
A neighbor, Mindy Hartman, said that she saw Eric Gaulin and Bookstaver in their garage about 30 minutes before the shooting, and that they exchanged pleasantries about dogs and the weaꦆther.
“She seemed perfectly fine,” Hartman said, adding🔥 that ꦗshe never heard the shot.“You don’t even hear through the walls here.”
Bookst🍬aver was a Hicksville HS grad who 😼was attending Mercy College and working as a veterinary technician at Woodbury Road Animal Hospital, according to her Google+ home page.
It‘s ﷽unclear how long she and Gaulin had been dating. Her Facebook page has a photo ꦫof the pair mugging for the camera.
Gaulin also contributed to the Mercy College “Relay for Life” cancer fundra♓ising team Bookstaver captained this year.
In a July 7 post on her AOL instant message account, Bookstaver indicated she was troubled by something, writing, “Maybe over looking things and ignoring things and acting like everything is fine might just be a bad idea … Thought I could do it guess not!”
But a mon🍃th later, on🌞 Aug. 3, she posted, “So happy I can’t stop smiling!”
Joan King, 🐲82, a next-door neighbor in Hicksvilleꦺ, was shocked to learn about her death.
“S𝐆he is such a good girl. I am in utter shock. I can’t believe this. She wasn’t a wild one, she was never any trouble. She was a wo꧋nderful girl. She was happy and in love, like any normal girl,” she said. “ I just feel like I’ve lost one of my own.”
Her family was too distraught to comment.
The senior Gaulin is the founder of the law firm Gaulin Group, which does licensing work for literary titles such as Kurt Vonnegওut’s “Slaughterhouse Five” and Cornell🎶 Woolrich’s “Rear Window.”
Eric Gaulin graduated with honors in May 2013 from Elon 🎉University in North Carolina.
Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton and Lorena Mongelli