Police have confirmed that a young woman is dead following a shooting inside an apartment building in Brooklyn. The victim was identified as 24-year-old Tatiana Perez, whose death has prompted a homicide investigation at a residential building on Foster Avenue.
According to a police source, the shooting happened overnight, and in its aftermath two people were seen running from the building. Investigators have made those two individuals a focus of the inquiry as they work to establish exactly what happened inside the apartment.
Detectives were trying to determine who the two people are and to piece together the circumstances that led to Perez's death. The account of two people fleeing the scene shortly after the gunfire has shaped the early stages of the investigation.
At the scene, the aftermath was visible from outside the building. Through a basement-level window, what appeared to be blood could be seen on the floor inside the apartment where police say Perez was found, an unsettling glimpse of a violent scene in an otherwise ordinary residential block.
Authorities said police were called to the building at 2817 Foster Avenue in connection with the shooting. Officers and detectives converged on the location, cordoning off the area as they gathered evidence and canvassed for information about the two who had fled.
As of the latest reports, the investigation was ongoing, with no one yet identified publicly as a suspect in the killing. Police continued to work the scene and appeal for information as they sought to track down the pair who left the building and to understand what led to the death of the 24-year-old.