Former lover, 38, strides up to ex girlfriend, 52, and executes her in broad daylight with a bullet to the head in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Footage shows the horrifying moment when Latisha Bell, 38, sprinted up behind Nichelle Thomas, 52, and shot the woman in Park Slope Wednesday afternoon
The two women had previously been in a relationship but it was not immediately clear why the two broke up
Thomas - a mother of two children - was rushed to the New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, but the woman died from her injuries, police said
Bell turned herself in to cops at the 78th Precinct with her lawyer present
Woman shot in the head, killed on Park Slope street
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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NEW YORK - The NYPD has arrested a woman and accused her of a brazen daylight killing of another woman on a street in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon.
According to authorities, Nichelle Thomas, 51, was standing near the intersection of 4th Avenue and St. Marks place around 1 p.m. in Park Slope when she was shot in the head.
EMS arrived on the scene and took Thomas to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Latisha Bell, 38, of the Bronx, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the shooting.
Mohammed Ali told via the nypost.
Ali, 57, said he ran outside and saw, ‘a lady lying face-up on the sidewalk and above her eyes was a hole with blood coming out.’
‘I’ve been working here for 12 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,’ he said. ‘It’s scary. If the bullet hadn’t hit her, I might have been the one hit.’
Latisha Bell Park Slope shooting. Brooklyn woman, Nichelle Thomas shot dead by former lover.
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A neighbor said the victim, a mother and her former girlfriend, Latisha Bell, had a toxic relationship.
Police said Thomas was taken to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Deli worker Mohammed Ali told the newspaper that Thomas had been a regular customer for years. “When I went outside, I saw the blood coming from her head,” Ali said. “I know the lady. She was a very nice person. She was always here. I’ve known her a long time.”
It wasn’t clear if Bell had an attorney who could comment on the charges against her.
The homicide was the first of the year in Park Slope, a neighborhood with one of the lowest rates of violent crime in New York City.