Police said the 61-year-old victim was struck when two groups started firing at each other.
It's the latest incident of New York City bystanders becoming victims of gun violence. This time, a 61-year-old woman was the unintended target. Nasser is one of the managers at the bodega on East 188th Street near the Grand Concourse. Instead of opening up shop at 6 a.m. Tuesday to customers on their way to work, he spent the first 15 minutes of his shift cleaning up blood. He said he saw the woman walking down the street when gunshots rang out.
The victim's family told CBS2's Kevin Rincon she came to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic some three decades ago. She lived in the Bronx that entire time. Jose Guzman called the family a model of the immigrant story. The victim is survived by her two sons and three grandchildren.Others couldn't seem to wrap their heads around the devastating incident.
Chaplain Robert Rice, the department's community affairs liaison, said the community needs to speak up and more needs to be done to address the underlying problems.A vigil was held Tuesday night at the site of the shooting. As CBS2's Ali Bauman reports, her two sons spoke between sobs about the senselessness of gun violence.
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