A Panamanian named Xavier, 40, was shot in the head on Friday night in Brooklyn, when goals were held before the Saturday parade to celebrate the separation of #Panama from #Colombia in New York.
Victim was walking along Albemarle Road near Bedford Ave. in Flatbush at around 10:40 pm carrying a bottle of Hennessy Cognac and waving a small Panamanian flag, but then a subject approached in the crowd and shot him in the back. of the head. .
A police officer performed resuscitation maneuvers with the subject lying on the pavement and was taken to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“The shooting was an unfortunate incident unrelated to the official program or sponsored by the organization of the Independent Panamanian Committee Day in New York … we pray for the family of the man killed in this terrible event,” management said. of the committee.
It emerged that the current victim was included in an investigation into the murder of a person in the midst of an assault in September 2008, which led to his arrest in August 2017.
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