Tuesday, May 26, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — An armed homicide suspect died in gunfight with police early today after killing his ex-girlfriend and shooting at a man who was with her outside a casino, then making menacing remarks about it in phone calls and texts.
In between the casino slaying and his own death, the 51-year-old suspect called to tell the aunt of his ex that it was time for a burial, her family and police said. And in a text to the other man, he called himself the "Grim Reaper."
The deadly sequence began at about 2 a.m. when the suspect rolled up in a white Dodge Charger and confronted Patricia Mohammed and the other man as they stood outside the Resorts World Casino in Queens, police said.
Mohammed's aunt, Rose Marie Guilford, said the suspect and her niece were in an abusive relationship before breaking up about a year ago and the other man was only a friend. Police said Mohammed and the man were employees at the casino, where the suspect also once worked.
The suspect first shot at the 51-year-old man, who escaped, police said. He then shot the 55-year-old Mohammed multiple times as she tried to take cover in a car, they said.