Woman pronounced dead at shooting scene later found alive

Emergency crews rushed to a home in the NY City borough of Queens Thursday morning and found a 21-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the head.

The woman had been on the phone with her boyfriend threatening to kill herself when she apparently shot herself in the head with a rifle inside of a home on 115th St. near 103rd Ave.in Richmond Hill around 9 a.m., cops said. The boyfriend, who was in OH, heard the gunshot and called her sister, who then called local police.

Her relatives notified authorities, and when EMTs from Jamaica Hospital Center arrived, they declared the woman dead. At 10:49 a.m., an EMS supervisor and the original EMS unit returned to the scene and determined she was still alive. After searching in vain for a pulse, the medical workers declared her dead, called off other medical responders and left the scene.

Sources added that Rodriguez later died at a hospital.

Rodriguez’s family is distressed about the mistake, wondering if prompter medical attention could have saved her life. “He told me ‘I’m sorry I don’t really know.’ He kind of brushed off the question”, she told The Post. Then cops realized she was still alive 40 minutes later, sources said.

“She was always happy, always smiling”, Ramjattan said. They first told me to go to the 106 precinct. They said that it was more than two hours after medics had first arrived.