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Patsy Mohamed, 51, was gunned down in the parking lot of Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York Tuesday morning.
According to the New York Daily News, Dalton Branch ambushed Mohamed and her new boyfriend around 2:00 am as the couple stood outside of Mohamed’s car chatting. When Branch opened fire from his white Dodge Charger, Mohamed fled to her vehicle while her boyfriend ran away. Mohamed was hit multiple times in the chest. She was later pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital. Branch tried to go after Mohamed’s lover, but eventually gave up and drove away. He later taunted the unidentified man via text message.
“How you like that p—- now?” Branch reportedly wrote.
Branch also contacted Mohamed’s aunt at 2:52 am to inform her that he killed her niece.
“He told me that I should prepare myself to bury my niece,” recalled Rosemarie Guilford, 75. “And then he called back at 3 am.”
“He told me, ‘I gave it to her good. She’s dead, so prepare yourself. And I could come and burn your house down.’ I couldn’t say anything. What was I going to say? … He was a very brutal type of guy.”
Branch also reached out to a relative to say his goodbyes.
“I love you,” Branch told Eric Woodruff, 58. “I did it. I’m not going back to jail.”
Three hours after the call, Branch died in a gun battle with the NYPD officers in Brooklyn, which investigators say her initiated.
Woodruff tells reporters that he spent time with Branch the day before the shooting and he could sense that something was wrong.
“I expected it,” said Woodruff about the shooting. “We were just joking yesterday, and he snapped. He left with a smile. He was grinning.”
“She kept pushing his buttons, and she pushed the last button,” Woodruff continued. “He had a lot of tension built up. He exploded.”
According to reports, Mohamed’s new boyfriend was a supervisor and driver at a bus company that Branch used to work at. Mohamed had recently broken up with Branch, who was an ex-con, because of his continued brushes with the law.
“He was a jealous, controlling person,” said Mohamed’s uncle, George Guilford. “If she goes anywhere, he wanted to be there. She was a happy-go-lucky person.”
Mohamed leaves behind an adult daughter, Melissa Mohamed. We send our prayers to this family during their time of bereavement.
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