Stray bullet breaks window, kills 28-year-old wife, mother of 2

NEW YORK (AP) -- A stray bullet fired in the air outside a Queens apartment complex killed a woman standing at her fifth-floor window, police said Thursday.
Selina Akthel died late Wednesday. She would have turned 29 on New Year's Eve.
Her husband, Golam Maola, said he was on the phone with relatives in Bangladesh just before midnight when he heard two shots outside.
"I didn't know what happened. I went into the bedroom, and she was lying in blood," Maola said.
Neighbors said the shots appeared to have been fired by someone in a group of boisterous drunken men. Police were working to identify the shooter.
The couple's two young children, also in the apartment at the time, were unharmed, police said.
Friends said they had been planning a surprise birthday party for the woman.
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