A forty five-year-old man was fatally shot within the Bronx on Easter Sunday, police mentioned.
Police responding to a 911 name about photographs fired found the 45-year-old sufferer with a gunshot wound to the torso and one other, 40-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the stomach within the rear courtyard of Patterson Homes on E. 143rd St. in Mott Haven round 2 p.m., cops mentioned.
EMS transported each males to Lincoln Hospital, the place the 45-year-old man later died.
A girl crying contained in the foyer of a constructing close to the place the person was gunned down simply hours in the past described him as a hard-working father with no felony ties, and was shocked at his premature downfall.
“He works. He’s not a gangster. He doesn’t bother anyone. He can go anywhere. He has no beefs, no trouble. So this is like crazy. We all buggin’ because it’s him,” Tisuha Longwell, 53, mentioned. “I know him all his life. I’m from around here. He was not a bad person. He works. He has a fiance, who is also a cousin of mine.”
Longwell mentioned the sufferer grew up within the constructing he was shot outdoors of however had moved and incessantly got here again to go to. She noticed him final evening at a neighborhood get together.
“He was just right here, dancing, having a good time partying,” Longwood mentioned. “This is surreal to me.”
“He don’t even have arguments nowhere. He’s not affiliated with, nothing like that in the street, neither,” Longwood reiterated. “He had nothing to do with no kind of gang affiliated street life. He was a good, decent person that worked.”
Longwood mentioned that the sufferer was an excellent man who typically helped her out, and acquired her cleansing provides yesterday when she couldn’t afford the. “He bought me stuff. If I’m hungry, he gonna bought me food,” she mentioned.
“Now he gone and I feel like I’m by myself already,” Longwood mentioned.
The 40-year-old man is in secure situation, based on police.
There aren’t any arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
Police didn’t instantly launch the identification of the 45-year-old sufferer, pending household notification.
Earlier on Easter Sunday, round 6:35 a.m. in the identical borough, a 21-year-old man with gunshot wounds throughout his physique confirmed up “by private means” at a Bronx pressing care on Grand Concourse Ave., the place he stays in important situation, cops mentioned.
A short while later a 29-year-old man got here into Bronx Care with a gunshot abrasion on his left cheek, police mentioned. He’s secure.
Police are presently investigating. It was not instantly clear the place the lads sustained their wounds or if the incidents have been associated.
Initially Revealed: April 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM EDT
