A 26-year-old man was killed in an early morning shooting outside a Kennedy Fried Chicken franchise restaurant in the Bronx, NYPD reported.
Police were called around 10:55 a.m. Thursday to the branch located at 131 W. Kingsbridge Road near Webb Ave. in Kingsbridge Heightsin front of the “James J. Peters Veterans Administration Medical Center,” indicated Daily News.
At the scene, officers found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. Paramedics rushed him to St. Barnabas Hospital, but were unable to save him. His name was not released as police worked to locate his family.
It is unclear what caused the shooting or whether the victim knew the gunman. No arrests have been made or suspects identified. 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.
Young people are protagonists in armed violence in New York as victims and perpetratorsparticularly shootings and knife attacks, including in and around schools and businesses.
In November, a 23-year-old Latino man was also stabbed to death outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food restaurant in the Bronx, and police believe it was retaliation for a robbery that had occurred the day before.
On Thursday, a Brazilian visitor was shot in the leg when three young men opened fire during a robbery at a store in Times Square, New York’s tourist and theater mecca. The night before Declyn “Dex” Lauper, rapper son of music legend Cyndi Lauper, was arrested after police responded to a shooting that left a young man injured in Harlem.
2024-02-10 13:47:00
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