$10,000 Reward Offered For Information In Deadly Harlem Shooting

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in connection with a deadly shooting in Harlem.

Odessa Simms, 61, was watching friends play a pinochle game at 144th Street and Lenox Avenue at 11:45 p.m. Saturday when she was shot in the neck and killed. Sources said she was an innocent bystander when two men started shooting.

"They were shooting at somebody and she was running from it and the bullet caught her," husband Basil Simms told 1010 WINS' Roger Stern.

Simms told CBS2's Steve Langford that the bullet went "straight through her neck."

"Out of all the people in the world … I don't understand this," Simms said.

Charles Cook was playing pinochle when the shooting happened. Cook explained that one person with a gun was chasing another guy.

"There was nothing you can do, but they gave her CPR for a period of time," Cook told 1010 WINS. "They tried an ambulance, but she had been passed for a while."

The incident was one of three shootings Saturday night on Lenox Avenue.

The second shooting occurred at 139th Street and Lenox Avenue. Police used cups and bottles to mark bullet casings that surrounded a parked car. No one was hurt.

The third incident took place at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue, when two men were shot in the leg at 1:45 a.m. Sunday. Police said a 24-year-old was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition. A second victim arrived at the hospital a short time later.