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Woman shot with dog in NYC may have been innocent victim 

 

By Amanda Woods and Tina Moore

 

New York Post

January 3, 2022

 

 

Jennifer Ynoa was inside the Salim Smoke Shop with her pit bull when the suspect got out of a car, walked inside, and fired off three shots

 

The woman who was fatally shot with her dog inside a Brooklyn smoke shop may not have been the intended target, officials said. 

Jennifer Ynoa, 36, was inside the Salim Smoke Shop on DeKalb Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant with her pit bull around 9:45 p.m. when the suspect got out of a red car, crossed the street, walked inside, and opened fire – striking Ynoa and her pup, before “calmly” walking back to his ride, police said. 

“He then gets in the car and drives away,” a police official told The Post. “The dog comes running out and collapses on the ground and then the lady comes out and collapses on the ground. 911 calls start coming in about shots fired.” 

Ynoa, who lived about two blocks from the store near Franklin Avenue, was taken to the Brooklyn Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Jennifer Ynoa’s pit bull died after being shot by the suspect

 

Her dog also died of its injuries. 

Another man was inside the shop when Ynoa and her dog were shot, according to the police official.

“They’re looking at who was the guy in the back of the store, and was he the intended victim?” the official said. “The lady seems to be unintended.”

“This is one of those terrible stories where you can’t even go to the corner store,” a police source added.

Police did not immediately know whether Ynoa knew the shooter. 

 

It was unclear whether Jennifer Ynoa was targeted or if the gunman was aiming for someone else in the shop

 

No arrests had been made by Monday morning. 

In a separate shooting hours later, a 25-year-old man was standing at East New York Avenue and Albany Avenue in Crown Heights around 1 a.m. Monday when someone fired multiple rounds from a car, striking him in the leg, cops said. 

He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center in stable condition. 

It is unclear whether he was the intended target.