A 61-year-old woman was killed on Saturday night after she was struck by a stray bullet at a playground near her home in Manhattan, where she had been playing dominoes and cards with her friends, the police said on Sunday.

The police found the woman, identified as Odessa Simms, unconscious and unresponsive after they were called shortly before midnight to the Col. Charles Young Playground, near West 144th Street and Lenox Avenue, in Harlem, the authorities said. The police said a fight had broken out and at least one person opened fire; Ms. Simms was a bystander.

She was hit in the neck and the right shoulder, and she was taken to Harlem Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead, the police said.

The police said that the circumstances of the shooting remained under investigation on Sunday afternoon and that no arrests had been made.