A 70-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head after answering her front door in Queens early Monday, according to police.
Police say someone either knocked on Leta Webb's door or rang the doorbell at her home on 119th Avenue in South Jamaica around 1:30 a.m.
When she opened the door, Webb was shot once in the head and once in the left arm, police say.
A relative said he heard a loud knocking and was on his way downstairs when he heard the gunshots.
"Me and her son come downstairs and she's laying in a pool of blood, a gunshot to the head and one to her hand," said son-in-law Kevin McDowell.
Webb was taken to Jamaica Hospital in serious condition; she later died there.
Leta Webb was "loving, she cared," her son Benny Webb told NBC 4 New York. "You would have wished she was your mother."
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There was no information on the suspect.
