Susp held in fatal shoot of visitor in B’klyn apt.
A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a young woman visiting a Brooklyn apartment — and for leaving the home’s tenant critically wounded, cops said Sunday.
Jose Romero is accused of shooting 19-year-old Briana Zaret multiple times in a second-floor apartment on Pulaski St. near Malcolm X Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 1:05 p.m. on June 16.
Zaret, who lived in Forest Hills, Queens, died at the scene.
“I feel so bad for her mother,” her next-door neighbor, who gave his name only as Frank, said Sunday. “No parent should bury their child, especially like that.”
A 63-year-old man who lives in the apartment where the shooting occurred was shot in the head, police said. Medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital in critical condition. Police found Zaret’s phone charging in the apartment, sources said.
The wounded man lives alone, works in construction and occasionally has women visit him at his apartment, neighbors said.
“He has two grown kids, a daughter and a son,” a friend, who did not give her name, told the Daily News on the day of the shooting. “It’s sad. It’s just terrible.”
Cops took Romero, 47, into custody later in the day of the shooting, after he bolted out of the apartment building and allegedly dropped a messenger bag with a gun inside at the corner of Broadway and Malcolm X Blvd., police sources said.
Romero was charged the next day with murder, attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. He lives in Rego Park, Queens, according to cops. He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and remains held without bail.