"Evidently, it was a shotgun blast, because there were several pellets," said mortician Joseph Brown III.
Baltimore City Police are still trying to determine whether someone called McGahee’s phone to set her up.
"An apparent gunman who had been parked on the parking lot pulled off and she exited the building when shots rang out," said Baltimore City Police Agent Donny Moses.
McGahee died from a gunshot wound to the chest and buckshot from the blast also struck a visitor inside the funeral home.
The victim had been attending a wake for her boyfriend, Michael Anthony McFadden, who died last week when a masked man approached him near his home on North Fulton Avenue and shot him in the head three times.
"We're not sure if they're related, however, we're not ruling it out. We're travelling down every avenue to see what connection there may be between the two," said Agent Moses.
In the meantime, the funeral owner, Brown, says he’s concerned for the safety of his customers, their families and his workers.
"There's a police presence right now. There are unmarked cars. There are marked cars, and unfortunately this is what we're going to have to endure until the service is over," said Brown.
Brown says in the funeral home’s more than 100-year history, this is the first murder, which has happened on the property, and until the killer is caught, there’s no guarantee it can’t happen again.
