Updated Monday, Jan. 13, 4:55 p.m.
A 50-year-old retired correction officer is dead after he was shot in Queens Village Friday morning following a domestic dispute with two other correction officers, according to published reports and police.
The shooting occurred about 4:30 a.m. at 108th Avenue near 227th Street, the NYPD said.
The victim, identified by police as Jeffrey Ragland, of Jamaica, was taken to Long Island Jewish Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest and pronounced dead, cops said.
Ragland, who formerly worked for the Department of Correction, was killed following an argument with two current correction officers, according to published reports.
Sources told the New York Post the dispute involved a “love triangle” between Ragland, his estranged girlfriend and her new boyfriend, and it was the boyfriend who pulled the trigger.
Police said Friday a man and a woman were currently in custody.
As of the Monday afternoon, police said no charges had been brought in the homicide, but the investigation is still ongoing.
According to the New York Daily News, the boyfriend told police that he shot Ragland in self defense, only after Ragland pulled a gun on him.
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