Newsman: A Woman struck in head by stray bullet and killed while she was walking to supermarket in Manhattan on Monday. Valeria Ortega, 64, was on a walk to the supermarket at 11:30 a.m. Monday when she was killed. Ortega was shot once in the head – another bullet struck a parked vehicle, and another landed on the sidewalk. Ortega‘s family grieving the loss of a mother, wife and grandmother the day after Christmas.
Police are looking for two people who fled on a moped who fired shots at another person, possibly in a car going by. The suspects were across Dyckman Street, just opposite Ortega as she was about to cross Vermilyea Avenue with her shopping cart.
Ortega had been a resident of the community for more than 30 years. The NYPD’s 34 Precinct detectives are also investigating another shooting on nearby West 205th Street and whether it might be related – it happened only about 15 minutes later. The victim in the second shooting appeared to be targeted, shot inside an apartment. He is recovering as police continue to search for those who guys on the moped that fled the scene.
Valeria Ortega, was described by neighbors as ‘buenisima – a very good woman, a doting mother’ and ‘generous, kind almost too much for her own good.’
