Two men were shot, a fatal oneoutside a Bronx apartment building early Sunday, police said.
Alvin Perez, 33, was shot in the arm and chest and a 36-year-old man was shot in the arm and wrist on Morris Ave near Kingsbridge Road at 1 a.m., police said.
Medics took both victims to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Perez died.
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A woman responds to the scene where two men were shot while sitting in a black sedan double parked on Morris Ave. in the Bronx.
The surviving victim was in stable condition Sunday morning, police said.
On Sunday, a trail of blood droplets could be seen in the foyer leading to the building’s lobby and more blood could be found on the sixth floor, where the victim’s family lived.
“My family is not doing so well right now,” said Perez’s sister, who did not give her name.
“(He has) no problem,” she added. He’s from here. He has no problem with anyone. He is a working person. He works for NYCHA… He was a father.”
Police blocked off with yellow tape a black four-door sedan with the engine still running. The victims are believed to have been sitting inside when they were shot. Five bullet holes were left in the driver’s side window.
A neighbor, Mir, 20, who did not give his last name, said he heard seven shots and believes the gunman was on a scooter.
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A 33-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest and left arm while sitting in a black sedan double-parked on Morris Ave. in the Bronx Sunday.
“I looked out the window. I didn’t see much. I just saw some bullet holes in the car,” he said. “I heard a scooter. An electric scooter. I heard it spinning and then speeding away afterwards. I heard the shots go off and he just took off.”
The police have not made any arrests.
Perez often hung out outside the building, Mir said.
“He would always be outside. I used to talk to him briefly. He was calm. I would say, ‘What’s going on?'” to him, he said. “He would sit outside the building. I never saw him in the car. Yesterday was the first time.”
“I’m upset,” he added. “I didn’t know him that much but I used to see him around. But it hurts to see someone from the block.”
The shooting marks the ninth homicide so far this year in the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct, which saw nine homicides in all of 2023, That’s what the NYPD’s statistics show.
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