Ditmars Woman, Apparent Boyfriend Killed In Shooting, Cops Say

DITMARS, QUEENS — A Ditmars woman was killed and her possible boyfriend wounded when another man opened fire in her apartment Friday morning, NYPD officials said.

A 911 call reported gunshots at 19-54 77th St. just after 6:50 a.m. The 31-year-old woman called 911 herself minutes later and said, "I’ve been shot by my boyfriend," according to Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea.

The gunman — apparently the woman's ex-boyfriend — shot her in the head and struck the other man, an off-duty Yonkers police officer, in the shoulder, Shea said.

The shooting involved "three individuals — you have two of them romantically involved, one possibly an ex-boyfriend, one currently a current boyfriend," Shea told reporters.

Cops from the 114th Precinct heard as many as 10 gunshots inside the locked apartment when they arrived, Shea said. They called the Emergency Service Unit to the scene, who entered and found the woman and the shooter dead inside the apartment, Shea said.

The shooter, 47, suffered a gunshot wound to the head that may have been self-inflicted, Shea said. The off-duty cop, 43, was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital and is expected to survive, the chief said. He also suffered additional wounds to his back, Shea said.

This wasn't the trio's first altercation — they were involved in a car-keying incident on Monday, Shea said.

The investigation is still in its early stages, Shea said, but police are looking into whether the three people knew each other from their military service and whether the apparent ex-boyfriend shot himself with the off-duty cop's gun.

"The one gun that we see next to the deceased that we believe is potentially self-inflicted, the numbers that we can see at this time on the serial number match up to the off-duty officer's weapon," Shea said.

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