Granny get your gun
Opens fire in rage over a parked car in Queens
GIVE THIS gun-toting granny her space — or duck.
An outraged senior citizen opened fire on a Queens car mechanic as he tried to retrieve a Cadillac DeVille from a legal parking spot outside her home Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
“I am going to kill your a--!” howled Yvonne Cosby, 76, before squeezing off two shots from a .22-caliber Derringer at repairman Garfield Foster.
That caused Foster to run for his life — just seconds after hurling an insult at his armed and angry neighbor, who missed her target with both bullets.
“I said, ‘You’re an old woman, you should be in church!’ ” he told the Daily News. “That’s when the gun comes out. She fired — boom! I crouched behind the car. If I wasn’t down doing what I was doing, I would be a dead man.”
Foster recounted hustling behind a nearby white van to get more protection when the senior citizen fired again from the black handgun.
“She was screaming and I was cursing her,” he said. “I said, ‘You’re an old f---ing b----!’ ”
Cops pulled a bullet from a door in the parked 2002 Ford cargo van, and found the Derringer tucked inside a pillow case in the elderly suspect’s bedroom, sources said.
Cosby, due in Queens Criminal Court for a Thursday hearing, was instead taken to Long Island Jewish Medical Center with chest pains, officials said. She has had no prior arrests.
But Foster told the Daily News that Cosby appeared pretty healthy when she grew infuriated by the Cadillac parked outside her home.
According to Foster, the luxury ride was left on the street by a retired police officer who lives on the block. Foster was planning to tow the car down Edgewood Ave. to his place and do some work on the vehicle.
Before he got a chance, the kooky Cosby was screaming at him to move the Caddy.
“She said, ‘Is that your car?’ ” recalled Foster. “I said yes. She said, ‘This is the first and last time I’m gonna say something! If it’s not your car, I’m gonna call the cops!’ ”
The trouble escalated around 5 p.m., when Cosby did indeed summon police with a complaint about the parked vehicle and a threat to “blow (it) up.”
When police responded, the officers determined the car was parked legally and left. The excop even came out to assure the officers that he owned it.
Cosby, who shares the home with her daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter, started stewing once the cops departed, said Foster.
The shooting commenced as Foster prepared to tow the Cadillac out of the space.
Cosby, who uses a walker to get around, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on a variety of charges, including weapon possession and reckless endangerment.