An NYPD administrative officer was fatally shot. in in head her boyfriend in apartment in Queens early Monday morning, authorities and police sources said.
51-year-old victim’s neighbor, 48-year-old woman, also was badly wounded after being shot in belly during violence in in home on Fresh Pond Road near Palmetto Street in According to police, Ridgewood is around 8:15 am.
dead a woman identified by NYPD sources as Migdalia Ortega fought with her boyfriend when the neighbor showed up to see what’s going on, the authorities said.
“During the dispute 48-year- the old neighbor went to check on the third-floor occupier,” Deputy Chief Julie Morrill, commander of the Queens North Detective District, told reporters on Monday afternoon. “She was in shocked and ran away back to her apartment. The suspect followed her and continued firing.
“There are shell casings in the hallway and in the stairwell.”
Ortega, who have worked for NYPD Information Technology Bureau at One Police Plaza in Manhattan has been announced dead at Elmhurst Hospital Center, police said. Her daughter have worked for NYPD together with her, said a colleague of pair.
” family got support from the NYPD Police Assistance Unit,” Morrill said. “We do our best to comfort them in it’s a difficult time.”
Neighbor remains in critical condition in the same hospital, authorities said.
No previous reports of domestic violence involving fatal victim and suspect, according to Morrill.
The suspect was wearing all all black and ran away in a vehicle with toned windows and without a license plate, police sources said.
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