Wanda Rodriguez

In the early hours of a late summer morning, the vibrant sounds of a J'ouvert celebration in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood were tragically silenced by the crackle of gunfire. It was around 3 a.m. on September 2, 2019, when Wanda Rodriguez, a 50-year-old woman, was caught in the violence that erupted at a cookout on Newkirk Avenue. A bullet struck her in the chest, and she died at the scene, just a short distance from her home. Known affectionately in her community, she was remembered by neigh ...

nydailynews.com: 'She was trying to have some fun’: Woman shot dead at Brooklyn cookout, her brother and another man critically wounded

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/09/02/flatbush-deadly-shooting-stabbing/