Woman known as ‘pillar in the community’ among 3 killed in spurt of Thanksgiving Day violence in NYC: NYPD
Three people were killed in a spurt of violence in the Big Apple late Thanksgiving Day, including a 69-year-old grandmother shot dead outside her Brooklyn home, cops said.
Angelina Renita Parker – described by neighbors as a “pillar in the community” who’d lived there her whole life – was blasted in the neck in front of her Bainbridge Street building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, part of NYCHA’s Brevoort Houses, just before 11 p.m., cops said.
She was taken to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced deceased.
The NYPD did not reveal the motive for the shooting on Friday or identify a suspect.
But grief-stricken neighbors – who could be seen consoling each other outside the victim’s building Friday – say that there is no way Parker, who was beloved by everyone in the neighborhood and “has grandkids,” could have been targeted in the shooting.
“She had no problems with anyone,” one neighbor told The Post. “Targeted? No, this is definitely like ‘what the f—?’”
“Everybody is hurting right now,” the neighbor added. “When I say everybody. I mean everybody, capitalize that — from the little ones, to the big ones. From the kids to the grandmothers. Everyone is hurting.”
“Our hearts are literally broken. I mean into pieces. You can have a 1000 piece puzzle, that’s not even enough — and now a piece of that puzzle is gone.”
Another neighbor recalled that Parker once helped to find her a job.
“I will be 50 and when I was younger she got me my first summer youth job. She was at my baby shower. She [has] more stories about my parents than I do.”
A blood trail could still be seen on a ramp leading to the building Friday afternoon.
In a separate act of violence about 45 minutes later, a 48-year-old man was fatally blasted in the back in front of a building on Macombs Place near West 152nd Street in Harlem, police said.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The motive for that shooting also remains under investigation.
His name has not been released, pending family notification.
Earlier in the evening, an unidentified man was fatally stabbed in the torso at Belmont and Alabama avenues in the East New York section of Brooklyn around 7:15 p.m., cops said.
He was taken to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.
The assailant is a stranger to the victim and the deadly attack appears unprovoked, cops said Friday. No further information was known about the victim.
The assault happened at an industrial-looking intersection that is home to the Belmont Metals Inc. factory.
No arrests have been made in any of the cases, the NYPD said.
The three deadly incidents come as murders across the Big Apple have dipped by about 12 percent year-to-date, according to the latest NYPD statistics, updated Sunday.
At the time that data was compiled, a total of 342 murders had been reported citywide, compared to 389 during the same period last year.
Shootings, specifically, also dipped, with 1,028 people reported shot in 876 incidents this year, compared to 1,435 shooting victims in 1,180 incidents by that time in 2022.
