Tyrone Swinton, a young 60-year-old grandfather, died in a morning shooting inside his apartment in Harlem, Manhattan (NYC).
Neighbors of the building located on W. 116th St. near Malcolm X Blvd. heard arguments and shooting around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the victim’s sister, Yvette Swinton. “My head is killing me, I have cried a lot. Is incredible. It is unbearable”.
Swinton He had three adult children and three grandchildren. The family said a social worker discovered him seriously injured and notified the police. Officers were called to the walk-up building around 11:10 a.m. When they arrived they discovered the tenant unconscious and with multiple gunshot wounds. According to the NYPD, he received eight shots. Paramedics took him to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, but were unable to save him.
“I heard a lot of gunshots. [y] “When they took him out on the stretcher, he was bleeding,” he told Daily News neighbor Dean Davis, 40. “They were pumping his chest, but he wasn’t responding.”
Building superintendent Hal Walker said Community Access, a nonprofit organization, placed Swinton in that building. The organization helps people who are homeless, have disabilities or are veterans find housing, according to its website.
A neighbor who did not want to be identified said that Swinton He often had visitors with whom he argued. The family gathered at his childhood home in Brooklyn Thursday night to mourn the loss of the man they remembered as a talented chef.
There were no immediate arrests as police continued to investigate the homicide. No suspects have been identified either. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Hours later, on Thursday night, a 13-year-old boy returning home after watching a Brooklyn Nets basketball game was shot to death in Crown Heights (NYC).
That crime was added to others Deadly shootings on Brooklyn streets in just a few days: A 33-year-old man was fatally shot in the head on Wednesday after being ambushed by two people outside his residential building in Crown Heights. On Monday, a 37-year-old man was shot to death in the head in broad daylight in an apparent argument over a cigarette that started in the warehouse where he worked and spilled out onto the street on Franklin Avenue.
2024-03-02 17:34:00
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