Police said two masked men followed a man into his building, took the elevator up with him, then tried to rob him. His wife tried to intervene, according to police. and that’s when she was shot in the head, right in front of her husband and her son. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested Thursday in last week's shooting of a mother and wife, shot in the face during an apparent botched robbery in her Chinatown building.
Police said the teen was picked up more than a week after the Sept. 9 shooting on Market Street where Ying Zhu Liu, 57, was killed.
Charges are expected to include murder, robbery, burglary and criminal possession of a weapon.
According to the investigation, Liu's husband was in a building elevator with two men around 11 p.m. When he got out, they did too -- and tried to rob him. Liu walked into the hallway after hearing the commotion and took a bullet to the head.
Police said both suspects fled on foot. One was described as wearing a black ski mask and a half-red, half-black hooded jacket with white sneakers. The other had on a black ski mask, black hooded jacket and black pants, police said.
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