Police say surveillance video shows the man who fatally shot an innocent mother of four while trying to gun down a rival in The Bronx on Friday, officialsš said.
The video, captured by a camera from a nearby businesź©²s, first shows a large group of men hanging out in front of a bodega on Boston Road just before 48-year-old Cindy Diaz was killed.
The shooter is thš°en seen chasing his intended target, an 18-year-old man, while pointing a āgun at him moments before the shooting, police said.
Diaz was just walking by the group when she took bullets to the torso and arm as she was carrying food home from McDonald’s for her four sons.
Theš¦ video that shows the suspect has yet to be mšade public.
The gunman also managed to wound theš„ teen he had been aiming for, striking him in the right arm.
Police tried questioning the teen after he was released from Jacobi Medical Center, but he was uncooperative and subsequently reāleased.
On Sunday, The NYPD flooded the area with cops and parked a massive Mobile Command Center truck near the bodega — West Farms Convenience — where the shooting occurred.
Some neighborhšood residents said the store is a known problem spot and make a point to avoid it at all costs.
“People who stand outside are always arguing. I feel unsafe because people are standing outside in large groups,” said bus driver Wendy Cedno, 45.
“I don’t want my son going in the store buying mints and getting shot.”
Another woman who lives in the area, Janelle Robinson, 27, said: “When the police are here it’s safer, they do keep it clean.
“Police are only here when someone gets shot though,” she added. “The police know how bad the neighborhood is and what goes on near the store.
“When the police aren’t here people go on with their criminal activities.”
A store employee who declined š»to give his name said things improved briefly when the Mobile Command Center truck was parked in the area last year after Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo was killed in November.
“Police used to come here all the time because shootings,” the worker said.
“The Mobile Command Center truck was always parked outside. Police were all over the place 2 or 3 months ago when the cop got shot.
“Then they left and now they are back.”