Person of interest named after mother of Olympic athlete killed by stray bullet

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(WATERBURY, Conn.) — Connecticut police are searching for the gunmen responsible for the fatal shooting of the mother of an Olympian, who was sewing inside her home when she was struck by a stray bullet.

Officers from the Waterbury Police Department responded to the home of Mabel Martinez Antongiori on Saturday around 1:15 p.m. after receiving reports of shots fired in the area near Orange and Walnut Streets, Lt. Ryan Bessette, public information officer for the Waterbury Police Department, told ABC News.

Antongiori, 56, was found with a gunshot wound to her head and taken to Saint Mary’s Hospital in