(July 12) - A Brooklyn woman is being hailed as a hero for rushing her young nephew to safety even as she was bleeding to death when gunfire ripped through the playground of her housing complex.
Jesselle Page, 44, often looked after her great nephew, 8-year-old R.J., who lived with his mother on Long Island, the New York Post reported.
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The pair was outside Friday when shots rang out. Page scooped up the boy and carried him 40 paces into the lobby of her apartment building, the New York Daily News reported. But Page, an innocent bystander, had already been struck.
Once safely inside, Page slumped to the floor, blood spilling from her mouth. R.J. ran in circles, his hands above his head, until a neighbor pulled the boy into her arms, and the police came.
Police charged 24-year-old Terrance Villanueva with murder, the Post reported, and are looking for other suspects. Neighbors told the Post that the shooting involved an argument over a woman.
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