The uncle of a Queens pistillate constabulary accidental was gunned down by her boyfriend witnessed her horrific last moments — and was changeable and wounded himself erstwhile helium intervened.
“I’m going to termination her now,” the on-the-loose shooter, identified by constabulary arsenic 33-year-old Kevin Rodriguez, muttered moments earlier helium fired a slug into the caput of Jennifer “Tatiana” Navarrete, 32, her uncle who survived the shooting told the Daily News.
The doomed pistillate had been trying to get retired from nether her abusive boyfriend’s thumb but helium was relentless, “harassing her, threatening her, hitting her, stalking her, hacking her societal media and her phone,” said her older half-brother, Alejandro Calderon Quevedo, who lives successful her autochthonal Colombia.
On Dec. 14, arsenic the unfortunate was picking up meal her fellow got into her car, deed her and threatened her with a gun, telling her he’d termination her, the half-brother says helium was told by the victim.
Two days later, helium allegedly made bully connected that threat.
In her last moments, Tatiana wished her uncle goodnight successful the location they shared connected 14th Road adjacent 119th St. successful College Point.
“She came in, already successful her pajamas, each set,” the uncle, Arturo Navarrete, said successful Spanish via substance message. “I asked if she wanted maine to marque her immoderate [tea], but she said, ‘No, I person to aftermath up early. See you tomorrow.'”
Minutes later, the victim’s fellow abruptly appeared, trying to footwear down her chamber doorway astir 1:15 a.m. Dec. 16.
“He kicked it two, three, four, five, six times,” said Arturo. “I went toward her country and conscionable arsenic I reached her doorway helium managed to unit it unfastened and entered.”
The uncle took a fewer steps toward the chamber and that’s erstwhile helium heard Rodriguez accidental “I’m going to termination her now,” helium said.
“When I got determination I heard the gunshot,” helium said. “I saw him looking astatine her and past I looked astatine my niece. She was sitting connected the furniture successful an upright position.”
As Tatiana sat mortally wounded connected the bed, bleeding from a slug to her head, Rodriguez turned toward him, Arturo said..
“I told him, ‘You already killed her,’ hoping to scare him into moving distant oregon checking if she was inactive alive,” the uncle said.
“But arsenic soon arsenic I said the words, ‘You already killed her,’ helium pointed the weapon astatine me. I instinctively raised my limb and the archetypal changeable deed my near arm, deflecting the bullet, but it inactive entered higher up and traveled toward my neck.”
“My limb was shattered,” helium added. “It was astir destroyed.”
Tatiana’s 49-year-old uncle made it connected his ain to Flushing Hospital and was treated for gunshot wounds to his limb and back. Tatiana, changeable successful the head, died astatine the scene.
Police are present looking for Rodriguez, 33, and said that erstwhile helium is recovered helium volition beryllium charged with murdering Tatiana and with wounding her uncle. Rodriguez’s photograph was released by the NYPD past week, with constabulary asking for public’s assistance locating him.
“This antheral deserves to beryllium successful jail. He tin wounded oregon adjacent termination much women. We can’t bash overmuch from Colombia. We don’t person a visa to question and effort to get justice,” the victim’s distraught half-brother told The News. “This antheral not lone killed my sister but helium changed the beingness of an full family. Everything fell apart.”
The youngest of 3 siblings, Tatiana grew up successful Bogotá but wanted to marque a sanction for herself elsewhere, her half-brother said.
“She was truthful astute and clever,” Quevedo said. “She got an concern technologist grade and she had a master’s grade successful finance, some of them successful Colombia.”
At archetypal she moved to Mexico but erstwhile she couldn’t find a occupation determination she returned home. Then astir 4 years agone she fled the unit successful Colombia, seeking a exile visa truthful she could pursuit the American dream, her half-brother said.
She came to New York successful November 2021 and met Rodriguez a mates of weeks later. They began a narration but her household recognized him arsenic idiosyncratic who was taking vantage of her vulnerabilities, Quevedo said.
“We advised her a batch to enactment distant from that man, until she yet listened to us,” helium said. “She decides to interruption up their narration due to the fact that she realizes that helium is simply a atrocious man, a toxic, jealous and possessive idiosyncratic and helium is hurting her a lot.”
After she tried to permission is erstwhile the harassment and stalking began successful earnest, helium said.
“She was present (in Colombia) a fewer weeks earlier that happened to her and she was telling america that, ‘He is ever threatening me… He says he’s going to termination me,’” helium said. “I told her, ‘You request to permission due to the fact that judge it oregon not helium tin really termination you.’ She wanted to get distant but it’s conscionable hard.”
Tatiana told a relative the time earlier the bloodshed that she was yet acceptable to instrumentality ineligible enactment against her boyfriend.
“She was conscionable talking astir however she was bittersweet and she wanted to get a restraining order,” said the 24-year-old cousin. “She was murdered the time after.”
Tatiana was moving respective jobs, including astatine a Starbucks and caring for a lad with autism.
“She had dreams of being a nurse,” the relative said. “She had truthful galore dreams. She came present to execute each her dreams.”
“She truly loved taking attraction of people. She was ever reasoning of others. She was beautiful,” she added. “She was taking attraction of her mother, taking attraction of her full household backmost successful Colombia. It’s truly hard.”
Tatiana’s assemblage was taken backmost to Colombia, wherever her household had a ceremonial for her..
“Her household was conscionable calling america saying, ‘How is it she’s going to instrumentality to her state dead?’” the relative said. “Her ma was screaming. She talks to her pictures. Everyone who knew her is truthful devastated. We couldn’t adjacent judge it.”
The relative said the household won’t remainder until the slayer is caught.
“He would ever archer her helium was going to termination her,” she said. “He deserves to rot successful jailhouse for taking her life.”