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(The Bronx - WABC, December 15, 2006) (WABC) -- A grandmother was found shot and killed in her home on Friday. Police say the only other people inside that home at the time of the shooting were her three grandsons.
She lived on Manor Avenue in the Bronx River section of the Bronx.
"I heard them 'call an ambulance, call an ambulance'" neighbor Saharrah Thomas said.
Once inside her neighbor's apartment, Saharrah Thomas found 65-year-old Lydia Santiago unconscious on the couch. The only visible sign was a gunshot wound in her arm.
"I put a shirt over her arm to stop the bleeding. It wasn't really working," Thomas said.
The gunshot wound apparently entered her chest. She was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital.
Also inside the apartment, the neighbors say, were three of Lydia Santiago's grandsons -- ages 14, 15 and 16 years old. Police officers brought a rifle from the apartment at one point and they also recovered other types of ammunition.
Eyewitness News has also learned police were first told the shot had come from somewhere outside the apartment. But after questioning the grandsons, they learned it came from inside the apartment.
A neighbor, Zion Rasta, had seen her earlier in the day.
"She was well respected on the block," Rasta said.
So far, no charges have been filed.
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