No justice, no peace.
Via Daily Mail:
A mother at home with her 14-year-old in the Bronx was slain by a bullet through her door’s peephole Saturday night.
Wendy Martinez, 45, went to her door in her Concourse Village apartment sometime around 9.45pm when she was shot in the head through by a masked gunman, the New York Post reported.
Her teenage son called 911 from a closet to alert authorities, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Martinez, an employee at Lincoln Medical Center and Red Sox fan living in the Bronx, likely was not the intended target, according to police.
‘She was a very hardworking lady. She would do anything for her kids,’ Maris Valdez, a coworker for more than 20 years with Martinez, said to the New York Daily News.
‘That’s a gang-related hit,’ a source told the New York Post. ‘This is street justice. Everyone on the streets knows that Solano killed that kid.’
Wendy’s older son, 25-year-old Brian Solano, is accused in the murder of Willie Lora. He allegedly fired a gun into an apartment building lobby, striking and killing Lora on December 8, 2014.
Solano spent three years on Rikers Island and a month in Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, New York, before the surprise release.
Solano was freed from jail in 2017 following an investigation by a private investigator, Manuel Gomez, casting doubt on prosecution witnesses and potentially exonerating the former inmate, according to PIX-11.
”Mr. Solano, you’re being released on recognizance,” Solano recounted to PIX-11 what corrections officers told him. ‘I was shocked. I was shocked.’