When Shatavia Walls, 33, found her neighbors shooting off illegal fireworks on July 4 at her mother's Brooklyn apartment complex she had one request: Stop. Days later, Walls' family alleged she was killed because of that seemingly simple request, according to People.
Walls' mother, Helen Testagros, told The New York Daily News that Walls confronted the group in the courtyard of NYCHA Pink Houses of East New York.
āThe kids were playing right there in the park,ā Testagros toldĀ the newspaper. āAnd they were shooting [fireworks] near the kids. And the little girl was hysterical. That's why she asked them to stop."
A single shot was allegedly fired at the mom but missed, according to theĀ New York Post.
On July 7, Walls and a friend allegedly again asked a group to stop shooting off fireworks.
It was then that someone in the group allegedly ran to get the man who had fired the shot at Walls just days before.
"He was chasing her, hopping over the gates, shooting," Testagros claimed to the New YorkĀ Post.
According to reports, Walls was hit and the gunman walked over to her and shot her seven more times.
A spokeswoman for the New York Police Department told PeopleĀ that about 8:30 p.m. July 7, "police responded to a 911 call of a person shot in front of 2676 Linden Boulevard in the confines of the 75 Precinct. Upon arrival, police discovered two individuals shot."
Walls was taken to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition for the wounds to her chest and eventually succumbed to her injuries.
The friend, who police identified as a 30-year-old male, was taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition with a gunshot wound to his arm.
