By The newspaper
Sep 27, 2023, 3:23 PM EDT
Quincy Davis was arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting an aspiring model teacher and wounding her boyfriend in an apparent fight in a Home Depot parking lot in Brooklyn (NYC).
Davis, 58, faces charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the shooting on Nostrand Avenue on Sept. 9. She allegedly fired several shots at the couple’s car as they tried to drive away, he recalled. Pix11.
Imani Sharpless, 26, was shot in the head and initially survived, but died after spending five days in the hospital in serious condition.
Mom tells News of relief after Home Deport parking lot slay of daughter
An ex-con was nabbed for shooting aspiring model Imani Sharpless in Brooklyn argument.
“I’m feeling very, very relieved. I needed him to not walk away from killing my daughter.”https://t.co/6HHqm4UF5r
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) September 26, 2023
Sharpless, a school assistant and modeling aspiring, was with her boyfriend Cordel McDuffie (36) at the Home Depot store located in Bedford-Stuyvesant. NYPD Deputy Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said the shooting occurred after an incident in which the couple and the gunman pointed their cars at the same location. Witnesses said McDuffie yelled, “I gave you the parking spot!” after being shot.
NYPD investigators found the gun used in the shooting and the alleged gunman’s clothing in a nearby trash bin. He fled on foot, leaving his Mercedes-Benz in the store’s parking lot, where the couple was about to go buy some items before the deadly confrontation.
Authorities recovered a Pennywise clown mask in the vehicle of the suspect, who was wearing a white shirt and a red hat when he ran from the crime scene. He has now been arrested, more than two weeks later
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
Violent fights over parking spaces have become common in New York. Christopher Hightower, a man found fatally injured on a street near his home in Queens (NYC) last year, was the victim of a dispute over a parking spot, the NYPD determined months later.
In a similar case also in Queens this April, boyfriends Arturo Cuevas (30) and Daisy Barrera (27) were arrested and charged with attempted murder as suspects for the brutal attack on their neighbor Wilson Chabla Lliguicota (28) in an alleged fight over a parking spot.
In November, Jason Freeman (36) died violently after being hit several times by a driver who fled the scene after a fight over a parking spot in New Jersey.
Days earlier, a man was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison after he stabbed two people and ran over five pedestrians, killing a friend of his, during an argument over a parking spot in Queens.
In July 2022, a Hispanic man was shot dead while working parking duties in Brooklyn for “Law & Order,” a legendary TV series about crime.
Previously, in March 2022, a 43-year-old man was fatally shot in his building after an apparent dispute over a parking spot in Brooklyn. In December 2021 in that same county, a 63-year-old man was found unconscious with head trauma and police suspect that he was fatally beaten in a dispute over a double-parked car.