25 October 2011

Police Question Person of Interest in Brooklyn Shooting

Police Question Person of Interest in Brooklyn Shooting

Police are questioning a person of interest in the shooting that killed a 33-year-old Brooklyn mother and injured a sixth-grade girl outside a school that had just dismissed children last week.

Sources tell NBC New York that detectives tracked the person, believed to be a teen, based on a tip. He is being questioned.

Zurana Horton, a mother of 12, died of a gunshot wound to the chest. She was shot by a gunman who had opened fire on Watkins Street Friday just after classes let out at P.S. 298.

Police said she sought to protect a group of children as the gunfire erupted.

An 11-year-old girl was grazed in the face by a bullet, and another 31-year-old mother was shot in the arm and chest.

The girl, Cheanne McKnight, was doing well Monday, according to her mother. And she has Horton to thank for it.

"That woman died saving my child's life," said Harriet McKnight.

A collection has started at Horton's memorial, and is already filling up with donations from people who have been touched by her story.

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