Prison guard opens fire on ex-boyfriend, kills self outside Queens prison

A veteran state correction officer shot herself to death outside a Queens prison early Tuesday after firing at her ex-boyfriend and riddling his car with bullets, officials said.
Gunfire erupted outside the Queensboro Correctional Facility on Van Dam St. near 47th Ave. in Long Island City at about 6:30 a.m., officials said.

Dramatic video obtained by the Daily News captured the 47-year-old officer, Kisha Brown — in uniform — jogging down the street with a gun in her hand.

“She wasn't saying anything. She had a determined look on her face like she wanted this guy dead,” said witness Darison Abreu, 27.

Brown, a 17-year-vet opened fire on her correction officer ex, Rasheem Lord, sending him scurrying for cover, sources said. He was not injured.

“They weren’t too far apart, maybe 30 feet,” Abreu said. “He was running straight.”

One of the bullets struck Abreu’s car.

“I had my arm on the door when the bullet hit it,” Abreu said. “I felt the vibration in my arm. He was so close, I could’ve opened the door and hit him.”

Brown left briefly, came back, reloaded and pumped bullets into Lord’s car before shooting herself in the chest, sources said.

“She fired a lot of shots. She emptied out that clip,” Abreu said. “She dropped something, but I couldn't see what it was. She made it about 150 feet down the block and I heard two or three more shots. A guy started yelling, ‘The lady shot herself! Call an ambulance!’”

“She wasn't saying nothing,” Abreu said. “She was breathing, though. I was trying to see where exactly she was shot, but the other correction officers were pushing me back.”

Paramedics rushed her to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she died, officials said.



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