New Sketch In Shooting That Left Woman, 61, Dead In Harlem
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Police released a new sketch Thursday night of a gunman who fired the shots that killed a 61-year-old woman 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 earlier this week.
Simms told CBS2's Steve Langford that the bullet went "straight through her neck."
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 on Wednesday. "They tried an ambulance, but she had been passed for a while."
Simms was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital Center.
Police described the gunman as a black male in his late 20s or early 30s, with short black hair and an athletic build, clean shaven, and last seen wearing a black shirt.
A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading an arrest.
Anyone with information in either case was asked to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS or (888) 57-PISTA for Spanish, log onto the Crime Stoppers website, or text tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and enter TIP577.
