Fatally shot Brooklyn woman recently reported assaults from ex-boyfriend, cousin, stranger
A 42-year-old woman shot to death in the lobby of her Brooklyn apartment building early Monday had recently reported separate assaults from an ex-boyfriend, her cousin and a stranger, police said.
Police raced to the building on Rockaway Parkway near Winthrop St. in East Flatbush after someone reported hearing gunfire at 1:17 a.m.
Cops found the victim shot six times in her body in the lobby. Medics rushed her to Brookdale University Hospital, but she could not be saved. Her name was not immediately released.
“She don’t bother nobody — she don’t,” the victim’s distraught cousin, who gave her name as L.B., said tearfully. “I don’t understand why. I just don’t understand. I just seen her. … This can’t be.”The victim had an ex-boyfriend whom she’d filed multiple complaints against with cops, including one in March in which she said he choked her, police said.
On Aug. 12 she reported being assaulted by her cousin. A day later, she told cops a stranger punched her in the face in another incident, police said.
The victim’s cousin said the victim recently had her arm broken twice. “When she voiced her opinion people didn’t like it,” L.B. said.
The victim had been arrested in 2018 for drug possession, sources said. She has an extensive history as a domestic violence victim.
Nobody has been arrested for the slaying.
The cousin said the victim is schizophrenic and has a son. “When her son finds out there’s going to be a problem,” L.B. said.
Monday is the cousin’s 45th birthday and the victim was supposed to attend her party.
“I will never forget this day, never ever forget this day, and what happened to her,” L.B. said. “She was supposed to come to my party. Tonight I have a party, and she’s not even here.”
L.B. was unsure who would want her cousin dead but is hopeful the killer will be quickly caught.
“There are cameras all inside the building and outside the building,” she said.
