MANHATTAN — A grand jury has indicted a leader of the Bloods gang on murder charges more than six months after he fatally shot the mother of his two children in a Harlem apartment building where she had dropped off their 2-year-old daughter, officials and sources said Wednesday.
Eugene Miller, 32, of The Bronx hid in the stairwell of 15 W. 139th St. building early in the morning on July 24 and waited until his ex, Rosetta Ewell, 30, dropped off their daughter, according to the Manhattan District Attorney. He then allegedly emerged from the staircase as she waited for the elevator and shot her three times in the face.
Ewell was pronounced dead at the scene. Miller was seen on video fleeing the area after the shooting, and remained at large until the NYPD’s Manhattan Warrants Squad apprehended him on Oct. 26 at his aunt's Bronx home.
“This cold-blooded shooting of Rosetta Ewell, a young mother of two, truly shocks the conscience,” District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement. “Unwilling to accept that Ms. Ewell ended their relationship, this defendant allegedly lay in wait as she dropped off their 2-year-old daughter at day care, before confronting her and shooting her multiple times in the face just outside of the day care’s entrance.”
Miller was expected to be arraigned on the indictment charges in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday.
Sources said Ewell had stopped by the building the day before the shooting, but left after a worker at the day care recognized him and asked if he was there with his daughter.
There was a history of domestic violence between Miller and Ewell, sources said, and he was on parole in a federal case.
The gun used in the shooting has not yet been recovered, but ballistics test showed it was used in a previous gang-related shooting in Soundview.
Vance said there is a strong correlation between domestic and gun violence.
“Though gun violence may seem synonymous with street crime, domestic violence and gun violence are inextricably linked: between 2003 and 2012, more U.S. women were killed by an intimate partner with a firearm than with all other weapons combined," Vance said in a statement.
Ewell's sister is trying to adopt the daughter, sources said.
Miller's lawyer did not return an immediate request for comment.
