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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A jealous husband who thought his wife was cheating shot her twice in front of horrified onlookers on a busy Crown Heights street Tuesday, police and witnesses said.

Kaidan Ramsey, 22, desperately tried to escape her enraged husband, Lenox Ramsey, 25, after he followed her onto the campus at Medgar Evers College. He then chased her down Carroll St., grabbing her arm and screaming, “I got a gun, don't f--- with me!” witnesses said.

Brooklyn gun horror: Young wife shot and jealous husband nabbed as horrified passersby watch

NY Daily News

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A jealous husband who thought his wife was cheating shot her twice in front of horrified onlookers on a busy Crown Heights street Tuesday, police and witnesses said.

Kaidan Ramsey, 22, desperately tried to escape her enraged husband, Lenox Ramsey, 25, after he followed her onto the campus at Medgar Evers College. He then chased her down Carroll St., grabbing her arm and screaming, “I got a gun, don’t f— with me!” witnesses said.

Kaidan Ramsey, who had moved out of the couple’s home three days earlier, tried to flee, but her husband would not let go of her wrist, witnesses said.

“He threw her into the street,” said Lunn Beaubrun, a substitute teacher who was sitting in her parked car across the street from the confrontation.

“She’s screaming and gets up, runs to our car and grabs our door,” said Beaubrun, 38. “She’s just screaming and holding onto the door.”

A crowd of onlookers gathered to gape at the fight, though no one immediately tried to intervene, witnesses said.

“He was very angry, [and] he yelled at her, ‘You’ve got to come with me now!’” said Nasser Ahmed, owner of the nearby Crown Heights Deli and Grocery.

“We didn’t think he was going to do something crazy,” Ahmed said. “We didn’t know he had a gun.”

Fearing for her life, Kaidan Ramsey desperately clutched at Beaubrun’s silver Lincoln Town Car, only to be pulled away by her husband.

She then tried to grab onto the back of a passing livery cab, but the car sped off, causing the couple to tumble to the concrete in the middle of the Crown Heights street, witnesses said.

“She went to try to get into the taxi, but he didn’t want to stop,” said Ahmed. “He ran the red light, and they fell off.”

As Kaidan tried to push off her husband, two onlookers tried to break up the fight – only to back off when Lenox Ramsey reached into the bag he was carrying.

“He pulls out a gun,” said Beaubrun. “[His wife] screams, ‘He has a gun, he has a gun!’ and then he just starts shooting.”

“I saw him shoot her,” said a shaken Beaubrun. “We took off. I looked back, and she’s just laying on the ground.”

Lenox Ramsey fired a pair of warning shots in the air to scatter the crowd and then fired at his wife, hitting her twice in the back, police said.

One good Samaritan jumped out of his car to help Kaidan Ramsey as she bled on the sidewalk, while another called 911, police said.

She was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, police said. She is expected to survive.

Lenox Ramsey ran to the corner of Nostrand Ave. and tried to carjack a passing vehicle, police said. But the driver refused to get out, and Ramsey was arrested moments later.

Charges against him were pending last night. He told detectives that he was convinced his wife was having an affair with a fellow Medgar Evers student, police sources said.

Neighbors in the couple’s Brownsville apartment building said Lenox, a security guard, frequently fought with his wife and fellow residents.

“Oh, my God, he shot Kadi,” said one man who would not give his name. “She doesn’t deserve this.”

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25 Comments

  • CN

    Glad to read she is expected to survive. It’s a big problem that a guy like him could get his hands on a gun. I hope they put him away for a long time.

  • Tired of idiots

    CN,
    The problem is that normal people like you and me cant get a gun in new york to defend our self’s.

  • cher

    the part that freaks me out most about this story is that no one tried to help the woman before she was on the floor bleeding.

  • why?

    Dear CrownHights.info, I am sure it’s not easy for you to publish this comment, but please do.
    why do we need to know this?
    How does it help our community?
    If you believe your readers want to see this violance promotion, why can’t they go to teh american cinema, or just buy TV, or watch it online?
    Create a poll on your home page to have your visitors vote for this kind of info beeing exposed or against it.
    For sure you understand what I mean. No need to explain. There are multiple topics are waiting to be published – let them work for us and not against.
    w/blessing

  • CH RES

    Cher, this is New York! And look who you’re dealing with. Shootings, drugs, & violence are the norm. They’re immune to it. People don’t want to get involved. It’s a horrible thing to happen – poor woman. She needs to run away as far as possible because next time (when he gets out) he’ll kill her.

    Remember that famous case in Manhattan 30 years ago (more?? I just can’t recall the name of the young woman) where people watched her die in the street? Nothing new under the sun. The only difference is, it happened close to home this time.

  • informed

    instead of attacking this site for posting such news, ill compliment it, why? because this happend on nostrand and carroll, and the shooter was caught on brooklyn and eastern parkway.

    RIGHT IN THE HEART OF CROWN HEIGHTS.

    if you wanna bury your head in the sand, you do that. but i want to know about these thigns happening on the very same streets my kids use to walk home, or play outside on with their friends.

  • why?

    To: informed

    So from now and on your kids do not go from nostrand and carroll toward brooklyn and eastern parkway. Fine, but many streets RIGHT IN THE HEART OF CROWN HEIGHTS experienced different forms of criminal in the past… These goyim really do not have any choice, so, let me ask you, how the result of our behavior will change our behavior? Let’s do right and goym will do right, you will be amazed.

    I am not attacking .info and express all Rebbe’s blessings to continue this site for the sake of our community, safety of our kids and Moshiach Tzidkeinu now MAMASH.

  • CH resident

    this story is very apropos.

    it happened here in crown heights, hence the name of the site!

    i think its very imp to be “in the know” and not have ur head buried. these things happen, ALL the time. AND when it happens on my block, It’s a must that I remember my surroundings @ all time!

  • To Why?

    Who are you to “express all Rebbe’s blessings” to a website?! Do you control the Rebbe? How do you know he wants to give any (and certainly “all”) his blessings to this site? I highly doubt it! Now that the Rebbe is on every key-chain, I guess people think they have him in their pocket… Wow!

  • Friend

    Did the Taxi get a a ticket for going thru the red light, or is it only our Shomrim that gets treated like that.

  • 7 Mitzvos

    IS there any way to teach these bnei Chom the 7 Mitzvos or are they indeed memutze between chai and medaber?

  • human decency

    I do not believe we realize how many guns are in the hands of those sitting in the apartments right next door to us on every block here in Crown Hts. I feel terrible that nobody had enough guts to help this woman until she had to be shot twice. It is important to know what is going on around us. I disagree with the post that mentions it is a waste of our time.

  • why?

    B“H you as a Jew can bless too, not only to curse R”L
    Please see positive in all, even in key chain, even in yourself and especially in Elul. You are good and blessed by the Rebbe, do not forget it, even you write a small comment to this site
    Ktiva VeHatima Tova LeShana Tova UMetuka.
    >>To Why? wrote:
    >>Who are you to “express all Rebbe’s blessings” to a >>website?! Do you control the Rebbe? How do you know he >>wants to give any (and certainly “all”) his blessings to >>this site? I highly doubt it! Now that the Rebbe is on >>every key-chain, I guess people think they have him in >>their pocket… Wow!

  • why?

    To: To Why?
    If you think, that this site is not positive has veshalom and did not deserve Rebbe’s blessing, what are you doing here? Same as myself, you give this site metzi’us, so how could this site exist without Rebbe’s Brocho? Do not be confused, just do tshuva, Elul is still here.
    Bracha

  • esther

    i don’t know why a web site which has the rebbe’s picture on it’s heading would have to print even partially blocked out expletives.it’s bad enough we hear these words casually,relentlessly tossed about in the general public.

  • S. Levilev

    I am outraged that the “jealous husband” incident made it to Crown Heights.info.
    I’ts bad enough we have to hear it on the radio,but to read it on “CH.info!!!!S