Brooklyn Woman's Death Result Of Feud Between Gangs

<p><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: #ffffff;"><div class="entry-header" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><h1 style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 24px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: ff-meta-web-pro-1, ff-meta-web-pro-2, sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"></h1></div><div class="entry-body" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; font-size: small; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> </span></p><div class="image-left" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; font-style: italic; color: #666666; width: 365px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="2011_10_rooftopnb.jpg" height="250" src="http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2011_10_rooftopnb.jpg" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" width="365" /></span><br style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" /><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Police officers on rooftops (NBC New York)</em></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">As police try to find the suspect whose<span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;">Friday afternoon shooting from a Brooklyn rooftop left a woman dead</span></span> and another woman and an 11-year-old girl injured, the slain woman's family remains bereft. Zurana Horton, 34, was killed when picking up a child from P.S. 298 in Brownsville, at Pitkin Avenue and Watkins Street, and apparently died trying to shield other youngsters. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">One of Horton's children told the Post</span></span> that she actually walked by the crime scene, not realizing her mother was the victim, "I was wondering where my mother was. I found out later [the body] was my mother. My little sister [Alexis] said, ‘Mommy died. She got shot.’"</span><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> </p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">According to the Post</span></span>, the violence is due to a feud "stemmed from an ongoing beef between two warring factions, the Hoodstars and the Waves. Members of both gangs told The Post that they consider themselves the modern-day Bloods and Crips -- and sources say their violent feud has been raging for several years." Apparently residents are too afraid to call 911 and say the violence is worse at night, when the gangster "do not hesitate" to shoot.</span></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-size: small;">While neighbors said that Horton, who had 13 living children (a 14th died of pneumonia a few years ago), was pregnant, but the ME's office said that she was not. Still, the tragedy is huge, as her children  will be split up between Horton's mother and her ex-boyfriend, Oniel Vaughn, the father of eight of the children,<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">who told the Daily News</span></span>, "She gave her life for those kids, and she would have done it all again because that's just the kind of person she was. She was worried about the violence. She said she wanted to move and buy a house for her kids. Those kids were her life." He added, "I didn't tell the younger kids yet. The older ones know. They're devastated."</span></p></div></span></p>

Brooklyn Woman's Death Result Of Feud Between Gangs

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