Police said on Tuesday they were still looking for a man who allegedly shot two members of a family in their Queens home early on Monday, killing one and wounding another.
NYPD officials said 32-year-old Jennifer Navarrete died after she was shot in her head around 1:15 a.m. on Monday in her home on 14th Road and 119th Street in College Point.
A 49-year-old man, who police officials said was her uncle, was shot in his arm and back and taken to Flushing Hospital Medical Center in stable condition.
Police were still investigating what sparked the shooting, but said a witness told officers they had overhead an argument before the gunfire.
A man who was about 5’6” and wearing a black baseball hat, black jacket and black pants was spotted leaving the house, according to the NYPD. No arrests had been made by Tuesday morning.
Navarrete is the 16th woman to die of gun violence in New York City this year, compared with 18 by roughly the same time last year, according to Gothamist’s analysis of police data on shooting deaths. Half of the women who were fatally shot this year were killed in their own homes, the data shows.
Monday’s shooting was the only one to happen so far this year in the NYPD’s 109th Precinct, which includes Downtown Flushing, East Flushing, Queensboro Hill, College Point, Malba, Whitestone, Beechhurst, and Bay Terrace, according to NYPD figures through Dec. 15. That was down from eight shootings in the precinct by the same point last year.
This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.