Widowed just three months after her wedding, Amy Federici had tried to stay in her old home. But the memories were too strong, so she switched to a new neighborhood and an easier commute to her job.
Federici, 27, was one of 23 people shot Tuesday by a man who walked through the aisle of a commuter train firing a semiautomatic pistol. On Sunday, she became the sixth person to die."Our spiritually beautiful, physically beautiful and artistically talented daughter died of a bullet to the neck - one of many victims of one gun. One gun," said Federici's mother, Arlene Locicero.
The bullet severed an artery to Federici's brain. She never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead Sunday morning while on life support at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola on Long Island. Her parents were donating her heart, lungs, kidneys and liver for transplants.
Locicero, a high school English teacher, talked about her daughter at a news conference Sunday at the hospital. She held hands and prayed with her husband, Jacob, and another daughter, 21-year-old Carrie.
Last year, Amy married Gary Federici, and the couple lived in Queens until he suddenly became ill with liver and pancreatic cancer and died at age 27 three months later.
"Originally she stayed in (Queens) because she thought that's where she needed to be. That's where the love of her life was," Locicero said.
Federici also had gotten a job as an interior designer at MTV and wanted to live where commuting to Manhattan would be easier.
Federici settled in Mineola and was on the 5:33 from Pennsylvania Station Tuesday evening when a gunman went on a rampage.