The grieving relatives of a Queens woman who was fatally shot in the face by her ex-husband say that Giummia Villa had gone to Family Court last week, perhaps in an attempt to get another order of protection from Alexander Figueroa. And Villa's brother said that Figueroa, who later killed himself in his apartment, had dumped Villa when she started to suffer from kidney disease, "The relationship went south when she started getting sick. She went on dialysis for three years. She was losing her physique as she was losing weight."
In fact, Nelson Villa told the Post that Figueroa kicked his sister out of their Long Island house in 2009 "while she was on dialysis" after her second kidney transplant and after she had their second son. When his sister regained her physique, Villa said that Figueroa "wanted to get back with her, and my sister didn't want to. He was just really obsessed with her. He was always going to her job and harassing her."
On Thursday, Figueroa went to see Villa, who was at work at the Crescent Chemist in Astoria. He offered her a bouquet of flowers and then shot her in the face. The 32-year-old died at a hospital, and police found Figueroa, who previously served time for murder, dead in his nearby apartment, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.
According to the News, "Villa had taken out an order of protection against Figueroa in Queens, which expired Jan. 25. But in the week before Villa's death, police were ordered to bring her ex in for questioning if they encountered him because he was threatening to kill her, police sources said. Villa also went to Family Court, possibly to get another order of protection, the week before she died, relatives said." And the Post reports, "Sources said that about two weeks ago, Guimmia had complained to police that her husband was harassing her and that he had a gun. But sources said police in the 114th Precinct, who took the report, failed to issue an investigative card."
