A Queens man ambushed his estranged girlfriend when she arrived to pick up their young son yesterday – and killed her with a fusillade of bullets, cops said.
Christopher Cephas, 42, was hiding when Sandra Bullins, 29, arrived about 3 p.m. to pick up their 2-year-old son from a babysitter who lives on the second floor of her building on 179th Place in Jamaica.
Bullins had obtained an order of protection against Cephas. She was about to climb the outside stairs to the second floor when her ex-boyfriend confronted her, shooting her several times in the body and face at point-blank range, police said.
Cops later found Cephas hiding in some bushes nearby.
He allegedly was carrying a .38-caliber gun, that cops believe was the murder weapon.
Cephas was charged with murder and weapons possession.
Bullins and Cephas, who also had a 6-year- old son, had lived in a first-floor apartment in the 179th Place building until Dec. 23, when they had a fight.
The woman called cops and they took Cephas away, charging him with menacing, harassment and weapons possession.
Bullins, a day-care center worker, moved out, taking her children with her, but she continued to use another tenant as a babysitter.
A neighbor said Cephas began dating Bullins since she was 16.
“He’s been her only love,” said the neighbor. “He worked two jobs and paid her way through college.”