NYC mom shot on her way to supermarket was 'too' kind: family
Heartbreaking photos have emerged of the Manhattan mom killed by a stray bullet on the day after Christmas enjoying vacations and doting on her family, who described her as “generous and kind” to a fault.of his wife Valeria Ortega. Ortega, 64, was walking to the supermarket with her son near Dyckman Street and Vermilyea Avenue in Inwood Monday morning when she wasPhotos from Ortega’s Facebook page show her enjoying time with family and going on vacations.
“Congratulations on your [101st] birthday mom,” Ortega wrote alongside a photo of her elderly mother posing with pink balloons. Police said Tuesday that Ortega was an innocent bystander in a conflict between two moped drivers and an individual in a dark, four-door sedan.Ortega’s husband described her as a “very good woman.”G.N.Miller/NYPost
“[The individual] in the car fired in the direction of the mopeds,” police said Tuesday morning. “No one else was struck.”“[Ortega] had already fallen to the ground,” Edgar Garcia, a clerk at the nearby GNC store, told The Post shortly after the shooting. “I just saw her lying there while blood was leading…She was laying face-flat near her cart and I just saw the blood splattered.”Police confirmed Ortega was an innocent bystander in the shooting.
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