STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The 61-year-old woman fatally shot Wednesday morning inside a Clifton apartment building has been identified by family and law-enforcement sources.
Nadine Davis, who neighbors say lived in the Park Hill community for years, was found by police officers with a gunshot wound to the head when they responded to her apartment at around 6 a.m., according to sources and an NYPD spokesman.
One of the victim’s children spoke hours after the incident about his mother, saying she was the kind of person “you either loved or loved to hate.”
“She spoke the truth,” her son, Geoffrey Mason Jr., told the Advance/SILive.com, adding that she didn’t “bite her tongue” for anyone. “She told you how it was,’' he said.
A 43-year-old man, who also was at the apartment, sustained a gunshot wound to the shoulder, authorities said. He was transported to Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton, in stable condition.
Authorities believe the suspect was known to the victim, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
Davis had recently purchased a Ring security doorbell for her apartment, neighbors said, though it wasn’t clear if there was a specific reason for the purchase or if it was for general safety.
No arrests had been made in connection with the incident as of Wednesday evening.
‘SHE COULD ALWAYS REACH OUT’
Mason said he has no idea why anyone would shoot his mother. “I just spoke to her yesterday,’' he said. “If she had any problems, she knew she could always reach out.”
He said authorities had not provided any information and it’s still an open investigation.
“We didn’t know exactly what happened,” Mason said. “I just got a call that there was a bunch of police in front of my mother’s door and I needed to get over to her property. When I arrived here, I was informed by the police officers that my mother was deceased.”
Davis, who grew up in New Brighton, was a devoted mother to her three sons, Geoffrey, Terrace and Darrell. Her nephew, Robert Alexander, was fondly referred to as her adopted son.
Mason described his mother as fun, loving, caring and always looking out for others.
“The thing she enjoyed the most was spending time with her grandkids,” Mason said, referring to his four children. She spent a lot of time checking in on them, he said.
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