Crime & Safety
58-YO Arrested In Bed-Stuy Home Depot Shooting: NYPD
A parking dispute prompted the shooting that killed a 26-year-old aspiring model in Brooklyn.

BED-STUY, NY — A suspected shooter was nabbed Tuesday related to the Bed-Stuy Home Depot shooting that killed a 26-year-old aspiring model, police said.
Quincy Davis, 58, of Brooklyn, faces murder charges related to the parking lot shooting on Sept. 9 outside a Home Depot at DeKalb and Nostrand avenues, according to the NYPD.
Davis stands accused of killing Imani Sharpless, 26, who died days after the bloody shooting. Police say he also shot her boyfriend in the leg, police said.
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“I’m feeling very, very relieved,” Ivani's mother, Alverna Sharpless, told the Daily News Tuesday. “We want him to know what he took from the world. ... I feel very very, very good about the outcome."
The arrest comes just days after Sharpless' family held a funeral service in Ocean Hill for the young aspiring model and singer.
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The shooting occurred in broad daylight about 12:10 p.m. on Sept. 9, and Sharpless' boyfriend, Cordel McDuffie, immediately drove off to find help, according to police and the Daily News.
McDuffie told ABC7 his suspected shooter was eyeing a parking space, and the two had a dispute that McDuffie had tried to diffuse.
Both McDuffie and Sharpless were rushed to an area hospital, where Sharpless was pronounced dead five days later, police said.
“My daughter was a blessing,” Alverna Sharpless said at the funeral service, according to the Daily News. “God gave me her as a gift. I lost my brother in the same way I lost my daughter, with a bullet to the head, and it’s been a bullet to my heart.
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