LI Man Charged With Killing Woman Found Shot To Death In Car Outside Home By Her Mother: Police

MORICHES, NY — A man was arrested Saturday after reportedly shooting and killing a woman in Moriches on Friday, police said.

According to Suffolk County police, James Quininchetta, 40, of Ridge, was arrested after reportedly shooting and killing Rebecca Roth, 33. Roth was found by her mother Friday morning in the parking lot of the Tall Oaks Apartments, located on Long Tree Lane, police said.

Quininchetta was charged with second-degree murder, police said. He is being processed at the Seventh Precinct and is scheduled for arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip on June 7.

According to Suffolk County police, the incident took place at the Tall Oaks Apartments parking lot on Long Tree Lane at t 8:20 a.m.

A woman called 911 after finding her daughter, Roth, 33, dead of a gunshot wound in a Hyundai Elantra in a parking lot outside their residence, located at the address, police said.

Roth was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Detectives are asking anyone with information on the shooting to call the homicide squad at 631-852-6392 or anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.