Investigators believe bullets went flying soon after Rogucki's 16-year-old daughter, Felicia, was spotted hanging out with two boys who are brothers in the courtyard of the O'Dwyer Gardens Houses.
When Felicia's 19-year-old brother, Lorenzo, tried to pull his sister from the siblings, the confrontation turned violent and Victoria Rogucki attempted to intervene.
"My wife was trying to break it up," whispered Adie Maldonado.
Detectives were not immediately certain who fired the first shot, but bullets rang out from both sides of the struggle, sending residents scattering for cover - and Victoria Rogucki toppling to the ground.
"I told her 'Wake up,'" said Carlos Maldonado, Adie's brother. "I was just holding her but she wouldn't say nothing."
"She's a beautiful woman," said Carlos Maldonado, 48. "She takes care of everybody out here."
The two siblings - one 24, the other 21 - who were harassing Felicia Rogucki tried to flee the carnage in a 2006 Ford Mustang, which they crashed into a SUV on nearby W. 16th St. moments later, police.
The men each suffered gunshot wounds and are in stable condition at Lutheran. Investigators believe they shot Victoria Rogucki and wounded a 29-year-old man who may not have been involved in the fight, police said.
Their names were not released. Two of Rogucki's sons, Lorenzo and Ishmael, are being questioned at the 60th Precinct, their family said.
No one has been arrested, police said.
I'm confused. Could "Adie Maldonado" be the husband of the dead woman, or was there another woman involved in the affray as well?