A 57-year-old mother was shot in the face and killed Monday night as she tried to defend her husband from robbers who had followed him into their lower Manhattan condo building.
The New York Post reported that “two suspects in black ski masks allegedly followed the victim’s husband into the building and into the elevator, where they attempted to rob him.”
The mother, Ying Zhu Liu, and her 32-year-old son were waiting for the dad to exit the elevator and realized what was happening when the doors opened. Liu tried to help her husband, and one of the suspects allegedly pulled a gun and shot her in the face.
PIX11 noted that the suspects fled the scene after the shooting. One of them “was last seen wearing a half-red, half-black hoodie, black and white shoes, black pants with a white stripe down the leg and a black ski mask.”
The other suspect is described as “wearing all black with a ski mask and black and white sneakers.”
Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranks New York the number two state for gun control in the country, second only to California. And New York City has gun licensing requirements that exceed those in the rest of the state.
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