Woman, 20, Gunned Down Long Island Man: Police

The shooting occurred at about 4 a.m. on Thursday

A 20-year-old woman was arrested Saturday for allegedly shooting and killing one man and wounding another on Long Island.

Laquasia Calloway, of Hempstead, is accused of shooting Damien Pinckney, 37, once in the chest, said Nassau County police. He was taken to a local hospital, but was pronounced dead there.

She is also accused of shooting a 19-year-old man in the arm, investigators said. He was treated at a local hospital and released.

The shootings occurred at about 4 a.m. on Thursday inside Pinckney's residence on Lawson Street in Hempstead.

Calloway, who lives on Baldwin Road, was charged with criminally negligent homicide and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, police said. She was being held on $20,000 bail.

An attempt to reach her legal aid attorney for comment on the charges was unsuccessful.

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