2nd Teen Charged With Murder After Stray Bullet Kills Mom: NYPD

ASTORIA, QUEENS — Another teenager was charged with murder, in the second degree, in connection to a case last month when a mother-of-two was killed by a stray bullet to the head, the NYPD announced on Wednesday.

Benaiah Reid, 19, is the second Woodside Houses teen to be hit with murder and weapons charges after Gudelia Vallinas, 37, was caught in the cross fire of suspected gang related shooting on the night of March 12, during her walk home on 48th Street at Broadway. A third young man from Queens was also charged with reckless endangerment and weapons charges in the case.

Vallinas, who was shot in the head, was found unconscious by the cops, and later died at the hospital, according to the DA.

Dajuan Williams, 19, the other teen involved in the case, was indicted for attempted murder and weapons charges at the end of April, and faces 25-year-to-life in prison if convicted at the end of this month.

At a press conference last month, which happened to be held on the day of Williams’ indictment, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards spoke of a conversation he had with Vallinas' family, and praised Mayor Bill de Blasio’s expansion of the treatment-focused Cure Violence program to the Woodside and Astoria Houses in Queens — where all three of these young men live.

"You add on top of that summer youth jobs, and more community based funding for other organizations, and you really do find a holistic culmination of things that are really going to make us move in a different direction come the summer," said BP Richards of the Mayor’s Safe Summer NYC plan to address the uptick in gun violence across New York City.