SAW ‘BLOOD DRIPPING’
2 shot in dispute over parking spot at Brooklyn Home Depot
A dispute over a parking spot in a Brooklyn Home Depot store erupted in gunfire, leaving a woman, 26, shot in the head and her boyfriend, 35, wounded in his back and a leg, said witnesses and police.
The shooting took place in the parking lot of the store’s Bedford-Stuyvesant location at the intersection of DeKalb and Nostrand Aves. shortly after noon Saturday, according to the NYPD.
“The guy pulls on the side of them, he starts shooting at them,” Stacee Glenn, 40, said. Glenn said the male victim shouted, “I gave him the parking spot!”
The couple raced out of the parking lot in their white Hyndai Sonata after the shooting, and stopped several blocks away at the intersection of Nostrand and Myrtle Aves. to call for help.
The woman was slumped over and nonresponsive, said witnesses.
“He stopped and said ‘My girlfriend and I had been shot!’” Glenn said. “I guess he was trying to bring her to the hospital.”
Yadelyn Pena, 14, told the Daily News she was outside the Duane Reade on Nostrand and Myrtle when the car came to a stop.
“I guess he realized he was too late, so he jumped outside the car and called for help,” she said, adding that the man had wounds to his leg and his back.
“I was like, ‘What’s the matter? What’s wrong?’ And he was like, ‘My girlfriend, look!’” Yadelyn said.
“And I look in the car and there’s blood dripping from her head,” she added. “I saw her.”
“The guy in the parking lot — he wanted my parking spot,” Yadelyn recalled the man saying. “I gave it to him and he started shooting at us!”
Three bullet holes could be seen in the driver’s side door of the Hyundai, which was facing the wrong direction on Nostrand Ave. Outside the front passenger door, a brown paper Home Depot bag lay stained with blood.
Yadelyn said she dialed 911. It seemed to her the police took a long time to arrive. “It looked like she was dead,” she said of the victim
“I saw her fingers moving,” Yadelyn added. “I’m hoping she’s OK.”
Yadelyn’s mother, Anlly Burgos, 38, said she tried to comfort the woman until help arrived.
“I held her hand telling her she was going to be OK,” she said. “Then the police came and they told everybody to back up.”
“She couldn’t talk,” Burgos said of the victim. “The only time she talked was to tell the police her name and then after that she was dead silent.”
The frantic boyfriend feared the worst. “Her boyfriend was really really distressed. Sad. Calling for help,” she added. “He was saying, ‘I got shot in my back and my leg but just make sure she’s OK.’”
Cops said both victims were transported to nearby Kings County Hospital. The woman’s condition was reported as critical. Their identities were not immediately released.