A Queens mom was shot dead and her boyfriend wounded yesterday morning at her birthday party, cops said.
Tara Webb, 27, was struck once in the chest at around 2:20 a.m. inside her second-floor apartment in the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, according to cops.
“I just lost a good friend, my best friend. She was my right hand,” said Simone Lewis, 28. “We were like sisters. I’m going to miss her.”
Webb’s boyfriend, who was struck twice in the chest, was rushed to New York Hospital in stable condition.
Investigators initially suspected the boyfriend, whose name was not released, had shot Webb and then tried to take his own life, but after interviewing additional witnesses, cops believe the gunman was a partygoer.
Webb has a son, Eric, 4, according to neighbors.