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New York Police are reportedly searching for a contract killer believed to have carried out the fatal shooting of an off-duty corrections officer in Brooklyn. Investigators believe an inmate at the notorious Rikers Island Prison may have put a hit on her.
Alastasia Bryan, 25, was shot in the chest, stomach, right forearm, and right hand as she sat in her parked vehicle while making a phone call at around 9:15pm on Sunday, according to police sources
cited by the
New York Daily News. She was declared dead by authorities who later arrived at the scene.
Footage recovered from the scene appears to show the gunman reversing into a parking spot and waiting for Bryan to get into her car. He then fires five rounds into the driver's side window before fleeing the scene, the sources said.
The sources told the news outlet that police are now searching for a contract killer who they suspect was hired by an inmate at Rikers Island Prison, where Bryan worked.
Comment: "He faced charges of sexual offenses against boys in 1992, but was cleared on the direction of a judge". So in other words Higgins was allowed to sexually abuse children for over 20 years!