BROOKLYN — An unknown woman found shot to death in the Whitman Houses last week has been identified as a fugitive from New Mexico, sources said.
Coral O'Brien, 26, from Los Lunas, New Mexico, was found fatally shot in the head, leg and arm in a fifth-floor hallway of 56 N. Oxford Walk, near Park Avenue, shortly after midnight July 21, NYPD officials said.
O'Brien, who had an open warrant for a probation violating in New Mexico, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Investigators initially didn't know who the victim was and released photos of her tattoos to help identify her, police said.
Among her tattoos, she had mushrooms surrounded by flames tattooed on her left forearm and "Johnathan" and "Cerenity" across her chest, police said.
Investigators used her fingerprints to match her to the New Mexico warrant and uncover her identity, sources said.
It wasn't clear what she was doing in New York.
There were still no arrests as of Tuesday morning and it wasn't clear what sparked the shooting.
Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).
