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2 women shot in Queens; police name suspect

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Updated  May 9, 2022 1:20pm EDT
Ridgewood
FOX 5 NY

Queens double shooting suspect

Police have identified the person they are looking for in connection with a double shooting in Queens. The NYPD believes the gunman is Pedro Cintron.

NEW YORK - Police in New York identified a man wanted in connection with a shooting that left one woman dead and another hospitalized in critical condition.

The NYPD says it happened just after 8 a.m. in a 3rd-floor apartment on Fresh Pond Rd. in the Ridgewood section.

Police said Pedro Cintron, 55, shot Migdalia Ortega, 51, in the head and a 48-year-old woman in the stomach.

Police are looking for Pedro Cintron in connection with a double-shooting in Queens.

Police said it all started as a domestic dispute between Cintron and Migdalia.  

The other victim, a downstairs neighbor, came upstairs when she heard a commotion, police said. 

Double shooting in Queens

A 51-year-old woman was shot in the head and a 48-year-old woman was shot twice in the stomach, the NYPD said.

EMS rushed the women to Elmhurst Hospital where Midaglia died, police said. The 48-year-old woman was listed in critical condition.

Migdalia was an 11-year civilian employee of the NYPD.

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