{"id":534190,"date":"2026-01-22T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/534190\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:48:32","slug":"queens-man-shot-to-death-as-wife-watched-in-horror-cops-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/534190\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens man shot to death as wife watched in horror: cops \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/queens-homicide-ramy-mahmoud-01202026-1.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police at scene of Queens homicide where man was shot dead.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Queens man shot to death as wife watched in horror: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A man was shot to death inside his Queens apartment on Tuesday afternoon as his wife looked on in shock, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n<p>A man was shot to death inside his <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/queens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queens<\/a> apartment on Tuesday afternoon as his wife looked on in shock, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the shocking incident unfolded at around 3:43 p.m. on Jan. 20 inside an apartment building located at 36-11 12th St. in Long Island City.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd114pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">114th Precinct<\/a> rushed to the home after a frantic 911 call reported that a man had been shot.\n<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, the responding officers discovered 36-year-old Samuel Alston on the second floor of the building with a gunshot wound to his back.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137826487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/queens-homicide-ramy-mahmoud-01202026-3.jpg\" alt=\"Police at scene of Queens homicide where man was shot dead.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"Queens man shot to death as wife watched in horror: cops 2\"  \/>Police said the shocking incident unfolded at around 3:43 p.m. on Jan. 20 inside an apartment building located at 36-11 12th St. in Long Island City.Photo by Ramy Mahmoud\n<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the investigation report that the victim had gotten into a verbal dispute in the hallway of the second floor that turned physical and saw the fight spill into the apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alston\u2019s wife, according to sources, told police that she saw the suspect inside her apartment holding a firearm when he opened fire and shot her husband. Alston was able to tell her that he had been shot. <\/p>\n<p>Two young children were also home at the time of the shooting. One shell casing was also found at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed him to NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition; Alston would die a short time later.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the gunman, described as wearing all black, fled on foot.\u00a0No arrests have been made thus far in the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this shooting can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot to death inside his Queens apartment on Tuesday afternoon as his wife looked on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":534191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,21609,9620,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,24672,236559,236560,236561,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-534190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-long-island-city","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-pm-newsletter","20":"tag-presbyterian-weill-cornell-medical-center","21":"tag-queens-homicide","22":"tag-samuel-alston","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115937889886302856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}