Police believe that a nurse who was fatally shot in Flushing, Queens on Saturday night was killed because the shooters were out for revenge—but they got very mixed up. Christina Coleman, 39, was killed by gunmen who, the NY Post reports, were "aiming for her teenage son -- and he wasn't even the right target either. In the fatal case of mistaken identity, the armed thugs thought they were shooting at the mom's other son, Mark Coleman, 22, who is suspected of being involved in gunplay earlier in the day, the sources said."
Coleman was killed in her car on Jewel Avenue while getting ready to pull out of a parking space. Her 18-year-old son was wounded; he ran to a police stationhouse to get help. A neighbor told NY1, "[Coleman] seemed to keep to herself. Just a nice person in general, a good neighbor. I'm surprised that she got shot, but I'm not surprised that it happened here at all, " but another said her sons have gotten into "a little bit of trouble" lately."
Mark Coleman and Lerome Robinson, 21, are suspected of a shooting just a few blocks away on Parsons Boulevard, where two men were injured. A neighbor told NY1, "I hear the young people are fighting for territories. Gangs, which I never heard years ago. Seems to be part of the way everything is now."
