18-year-old woman killed: Police investigating deadly shooting on Upper West Side as homicide
The search is on for the person or people involved in the death of an 18-year-old woman who was found shot in the head over the weekend on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
The loss of 18-year-old Kimberly Olmos is a tough one for her friends and family, who describe her as sweet, and silly. She loved doing DIY crafts and wanted to go college.
She died Sunday after being shot in the head.
Daya Nellis says she was very close to Kimberly, or as she calls her, Kim.
"She was amazing. You ever been around somebody and you just felt like, everything, like your whole room was just filled, like a hole in your heart was just filled," Nellis said. "That's exactly how she was. She knew how to make sure to make you laugh. She knew what to say to you."
Her beloved friend's death is now being investigated as a homicide.
According to police, it happened at 12:45 a.m. Sunday at a public housing complex on West 55th Street. Officers found Olmos in a stairwell with a gunshot wound to the head.
Police originally were looking at this as a possible self-inflicted shooting, but now police believe she was with someone who was playing with a gun that went off, and the person ran away.
A small memorial now sits outside Olmos' home in the Mount Hope section of the Bronx.
Those that knew her are confused and saddened, and have a message to the person police are now looking for.
"We lost another young soul to gun violence and someone I was actually close with. It's hard, at the end of the day because it's my friend," said Olmos' friend, Jordan Berrios.
"Turn yourself in. Like at the end of the day, you did wrong, like it's your fault and like you have to suffer the consequences," said Olmos' friend, Jason Rodriguez.
Meanwhile, Nellis had a message for her friend.
"I know you might not see this, but I love you down bad," she said. "And I really hope justice is for you, and you did not deserve what happened to you."
An online fundraiser is set up to help Olmos' family organize a funeral which is planned for this Sunday -- a last goodbye for the 18-year-old, as police continue to investigate her death.
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