Angelina Renita Parker, a 69-year-old grandmother, was shot to death in the neck as she returned home after a family Thanksgiving dinner in front of her residential building in Brooklyn (NYC).
According to the NYPD, the veteran daycare worker was found lying injured on the ground outside her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant after the neighbors followed a trail of blood to the side of his building on Bainbridge St. in the Brevoort Houses (NYCHA) public housing complex just before 11 p.m. Thursday.
She was pronounced dead at Brookdale Medical Center. The victim was a mother of one son and grandmother of four grandchildren, and a revered figure in the neighborhood as a much-loved teacher for helping anyone who asked her.
“What a senseless death,”said to Daily News his mother Mary Parker, 89 years old. “It’s just devastating… She was a kind and loving person. A go-to person, always willing to help.”
“It was a shock,” said neighbor Betty Parker. “He had just arrived from his son’s house for Thanksgiving Day. “She always made you smile.”
“She was always helping people,” said neighbor Jerome Hicks. “She didn’t have to happen like this. “There are too many guns in this neighborhood.”
As of yesterday, police had not arrested or located any witnesses who saw the murder or heard gunshots. It is unclear if the grandmother was the gunman’s target or she was hit by a stray bullet.
Police were searching the area for surveillance video to help identify the fugitive gunman. Anyone with information should callat 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
