Two women were shot, one fatally, in Queens Tuesday morning in what police say may have stemmed from some sort of domestic dispute.
The NYPD responded to a call at about 11 a.m. at an apartment building on Beach 32nd Street and found a 51-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the hand in the lobby of the building.
They later found a 36-year-old Joann Gravette dead inside an 11th floor apartment in the building with a gunshot wound to the body.
Police say that the suspected shooter, 29-year-old Tyquan Long, is the estranged boyfriend of Gravette.
Authorities say he shot Gravette first, then went to the 51-year-old's apartment downstairs. He shot the woman because he thought Gravette was having an affair with the elder woman's son.
Gravette's mother, Yolanda Gravette, said that Long and her daughter dated for five years and that he was always jealous of her daughter.
After the shooting, authorities say he called a third person, telling him "I'm gunning for you."
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Authorities say that man is being protected.
Long, who has been arrested 11 times, is still at large and is being sought, authorities say. One man said he saw him boarding a train earlier in the day.
Police held a news conference Wednesday evening while investigators worked the 11th floor crime scene.
"He has a considerable arrest record — weapons charges and assault," NYPD Inspector Michael Kemper said.
His most recent assault was last year against his now-murdered girlfriend.
