Woman hit by stray shot in her Qns. home, calls gunman ‘evil’

A Queens grandmother was shot in the arm by a stray bullet that sailed through her window — saying she was saved from what might have been a shot to the head had she not changed seats moments before a barrage of gunfire exploded outside her home.

Margaret Henry, 72, was struck in the upper right arm about 11:30 p.m. Monday after a bullet punched through living room window at her home on 128th St. by 107th Ave. South Ozone Park. She was rushed to Jamaica Hospital for treatment and was released on Tuesday.

“I was terrified,” the retired New York Public Library clerical supervisor told the Daily News.

Henry said her husband, Gersham, 75, had been hospitalized with COVID and she’d just returned home from visiting him Monday night, settling into a chair to watch her favorite movie, the 1995 film “Dead Presidents.”

“The chair I sat in was wet, and I moved to another one,” she recounted. “Otherwise I would have been dead — not hit, but dead,” she told The News. “I would have gotten my head blown off.”

But she’s furious at the violence that found its way into her home.

“They’re wicked people. They’re evil and have no remorse. They continued shooting,” she recounted of the shooter outside her home.

Her son Desmond Drew, 54, who lives nearby, told The News he was the first to run to her rescue.

“There was blood and shell casings all over the place,” he said. “I don’t know what to say. We got a lot of heartless people out here. They targeted the house. They stood right across the house and did it . ... An SUV circled the block twice.”

The 106th Precinct, which covers the neighborhood where the Henrys live, has had five shootings in which five people were hit as of May 29, not including Monday’s incident. That’s up from three shootings in which four people were targeted in the same time frame last year.

Drew said his mom, who has seven grandchildren and four adult children, is now staying with another son who has a home in Suffolk County.

“Would you stay here after what happened?” he said. “Nowhere is safe now. It’s just out of control.”

“My message to the shooter is: Be a good man. Turn yourself in.”