$12,000 reward in hunt for killer of Bronx Jewish grandmother, 88

Evelyn Shapiro was found murdered Saturday morning in her Williamsbridge Road apartment,

A $12,000 REWARD was posted Sunday for the killer of a beloved 88-year-old Bronx grandmother who was found bludgeoned inside her apartment with mounds of groceries strewn about her body.

The NYPD offered $10,000 and Crime Stoppers kicked in another $2,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers of Evelyn Shapiro.

Cops fanning out to hunt the slayer faced one daunting obstacle: There were no security cameras at 2455 Williamsbridge Road to record what probers theorize was a push-in robbery.

Shapiro often wore gold jewelry and may have been followed to her fifth-floor two-bedroom apartment by an assailant who spotted her at a nearby grocery store.

Her door was ajar and the apartment ransacked, but it wasn’t immediately clear what items were stolen or if her jewelry was missing. Shapiro’s mangled body was found by her daughter at 9:55 a.m. Saturday.

Neighbors said the slaying of the elderly woman — who adored both the New York Botanical Garden and the Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway — fueled fear in the Pelham Parkway Houses, where she’d lived for more than 60 years.

“I’m scared now,” said Liz Sanchez, 41, an executive assistant for the teachers pension system who lives next to Shapiro’s apartment.

“I don’t know what to think anymore. Coming home from work, I’ll have to worry about someone pushing themselves into my home.”