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A woman in Brooklyn was wounded by a former tenant of her apartment: doctors ascertained her brain death

'18.10.2022'

Nadezhda Verbitskaya

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A young woman is in the hospital after being shot over the weekend in Brooklyn. Doctors ascertained her brain death, which is legally considered the death of a person, although the woman's body continues to function (the heart beats, she breathes). Her family believes she was shot by a disgruntled former tenant, reports New York Daily News.

“It's a horror movie,” said the victim's sister. "It's a nightmare and I can't wake up."

Prior to the shooting, 29-year-old Danielle Parker was at her home on Dumont Avenue near Vermont Street in East New York. She lived there with her mother and brother.

The family, including the wounded sister who lives elsewhere, were gathered at the apartment for Sunday dinner when her brother received a call from the tenant.

“She heard the conversation over the speakerphone,” said Amani Parker, the woman's sister. “He threatened us, saying, 'Go outside, go outside and fight.' He said he had a gun.”

“He texted and called his older brother's phone over and over again,” she added.

Aggressive tenant, his girlfriend, and their 4-year-old daughter were kicked out of Parker's mother's apartment shortly before.

The reason was that they didn't pay the $500 rent in August.

“They wanted to shirk paying rent,” said the victim’s mother, Stephanie Parker. They planned to live there for only a month. And then they went to the family shelter.”

When the evicted tenants started calling Danielle Parker's brother, she left the apartment to talk to them. There she saw a girl, the man was nowhere to be found. A quarrel broke out between the women. And then an angry tenant showed up and shot Danielle.

“He came out of nowhere and shot her,” Amani Parker, 25, said.

Danielle was shot in the neck. Medics took her to Brookdale University Hospital. There, according to her mother, she was diagnosed with brain death.

“Her eyes are still moving,” Amani Parker said. "Please don't give us condolences."

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The family stated that they never attempted to recover the $500 owed to them from the evicted tenants. And aggressive text messages “appeared out of nowhere.”

“This is the first time we hear about it,” the mother said. “Why would someone pull out a gun and shoot my daughter?”

Danielle Parker worked as a security guard before she lost her job during the pandemic. She is survived by a 4-year-old daughter.

“She doesn't understand what happened yet, she's too small,” Amani Parker said of the girl. "That's something she'll have to deal with later."

The police have not yet made any arrests, and Amani Parker fears for her safety.

“His (former tenant) 4-year-old daughter and my daughters go to the same school,” she said. "Who knows what he's going to do?"

Stephanie Parker said that above all she wants justice for her daughter.

“It's heartbreaking,” she said. This is a bad dream from which I will never wake up. This gun violence must stop. I want them to be caught.”

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