Man Fatally Shoots Mom’s Abusive Boyfriend In Queens Apartment, Then Flees

A 21-year-old son seemingly fed-up over the beatings his mother received from her boyfriend, fatally shot the abuser twice Tuesday night at their Queens, New York apartment. The unidentified shooter remains at large.

Police sources told the New York Daily News that authorities arrived about 7.20 p.m. Tuesday at the fourth-floor apartment at Pomonok Houses on Parsons Blvd, which is located at 65th Avenue.

A man only identified by police as a 47-year-old, was found with a gunshot wound on the head and the chest. He was transported to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, where he died. Before the shooting, police already responded to a domestic incident between the mother and her boyfriend in 2018, sources further revealed.

A neighbor living downstairs said the mother needed a walker to move around. Another downstairs neighbor, a family friend, said the victim “deserved it,” adding that the man “was always beating on that woman. He was drinking every day and putting his hands on her and her son. There were two shots, and then the police came knocking.”

Police sources clarified that it was still unclear if the son had had enough of the repeated abuse or if he interrupted another beating on his mother when the shooting took place.

No other details about the shooting have been released.

Last year, a similar incident took place in Detroit, Michigan, wherein a 14-year-old shot and killed his mother’s boyfriend after the latter threatened to kill the teen’s mother.

Speaking with ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV, the teenager said that while he didn’t want to shoot 38-year-old Cory Jackson, “the fact is I’m supposed to protect my momma at any cost.”

The teenager’s mother, who tried to hide her bruises from her five sons as she lived in an abusive relationship with Jackson, said “it’s my fault my son is in the predicament that he’s in right now.”