New York Daily News

S.I. mom hit by stray bullet dies

- BY ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA POLICE BUREAU CHIEF

A church-going Staten Island mother of two struck by a stray bullet last week in front of her adult son has died, police said.

Sue Doe was taken off life support Thursday at Staten Island University Hospital, cops said.

Doe, 52, was standing in the lobby of a Park Hill Ave. building near Sobel Court in Clifton on Nov. 16 when a white SUV pulled up and someone in the vehicle opened fire.

The shooter sprayed wildly, hitting Doe (photo) in the head and blasting into two apartment buildings. The mortally wounded woman fought to survive for over a week before she finally passed.

Doe worked for the Clove Lakes Health Care and Rehabilita­tion Center on Staten Island, her daughter said.

She was in the Park Hill Ave. building to help the daughter and a friend after they got into a fight with another woman in the neighborho­od.

“She hardly ever left the house. It was just work and home,” daughter Kennedlyn Gould, 18, told the Daily News last Wednesday.

Doe’s 21-year-old son, Sutonio Viddy, was by her side when the gunfire erupted.

“I was like three, four feet away,” he said with a pained voice. “I turned around and I saw my mom drop.”

There had been no arrests. Park Hill Ave. has long been a nexus of gangs, violence and drug dealing on Staten Island.

The most recent killing happened on July 26, when a stray bullet hit Grashino Yancy — a 2012 Daily News Golden Gloves competitor — as he was attending a barbecue near Palma Drive.

Yancy, 32, was a fixture at the Park Hill Boxing Club, located in an apartment building on the block.

The gym, which has ties to the Police Athletic League, tries to pull young men off the streets and focus their attention on athletic achievemen­t.

Police sources said that shooting was gang-related. Earlier this month, suspects Tyler McCrimmon, 30, and Tequan Moncrieft, 29, were arrested and charged with murder.

In 2014, two brothers who ran the drug trade on Park Hill Ave. were convicted on federal racketeeri­ng charges that included two murder plots.

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