HUNDREDS REMEMBER SLAIN MOM.(Capital Region)

Byline: Associated Press

A young woman slain by an unknown gunman Christmas night on a Queens highway was remembered Wednesday as a loving and caring mother at a funeral mass attended by hundreds of mourners.

"Death comes and when it does it breaks many hearts. A death like this breaks the hearts of everyone," Monsignor Thomas J. Gradione, pastor of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, said in his homily.

The woman, 32-year-old Pamela Mascaro, died Saturday, a day after she was shot once in the back of the head. The shot, the police said, was fired by a man who had been tailgating the car her husband, John, was driving on the Grand Central Parkway.

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