A shocking assassination took place on a Bronx street Monday night when a 39-year-old woman was fatally shot as she entered her car, authorities and insiders reported.
The victim, Julia Anderson, was struck multiple times in the abdomen just as she was getting into her black Jeep on Murdock Avenue, close to Nereid Avenue in Wakefield, shortly before midnight, according to police and law enforcement sources.
Sources revealed that shots were fired from the direction of the vehicle’s passenger side, leaving it uncertain on Tuesday whether Anderson was the gunman’s intended victim.
Anderson, who lived in the nearby area of Mount Vernon, was discovered lying on the pavement by her car when officers arrived at the scene in response to a 911 call about the shooting.
She was urgently transported to Jacobi Medical Center, but tragically, she did not survive her injuries, police stated.
A woman who said she was the victim’s sister was seen being comforted by a friend at the scene of the crime.
No arrests had been made by Tuesday morning, and no information was available on a suspect.
Anderson has no arrest record in the Big Apple, the sources said.
It did not appear that anyone else was with her at the time of the shooting, according to the sources.