Maria Roque was a “smiley” person who would do anything to help others, especially her two children, said heartbroken relatives after she was gunned down on her front lawn in the Austin neighborhood this week.
Roque, 34, had just placed her daughter in the back seat of a rental car and was in front of her home in the 500 block of North Long Avenue Wednesday when a gunman approached her. As Roque ran away screaming, the man chased her and shot her in her shoulder, chest and thumb, around 6:20 a.m., according to a police report.
