A 28-year-old man was shot and an innocent bystander was injured when a shooter opened fire on Wednesday evening in a crowd in the Bronx, the police and sources said.
Marji Daoud, Van Yonkers, was shot in the head when bullets called Roads Road Road just before 5 pm at University Avenue, according to the NYPD.
He was found from bleeding by the first responds and hurried to the Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he was later declared dead, the police said.
A 33-year-old woman was also shot in the left hip during the attack, the police said.
She was able to transport herself to the Woodhull Hospital, where, according to the authorities, she remains in a stable state.
The woman was not the intended target – so that at least the second innocent bystander was shot in the city in less than 24 hours.
It was not immediately clear whether Daoud was the target of the shooter or another innocent bystander.
The suspect, who in general, reportedly shot the bullets in a crowd of people with an intended target that still has to be determined by authorities, according to sources.
There were no arrests from Thursday and the investigation was underway.
The fatal shooting follows a sprint by Big Apple Gun Violence that killed a beloved grandmother and groundbreaking businesswoman who was a pillar for her Harlem community.
Excenia Mette, 61, was shot in the head on Tuesday evening when she stepped out of a salon in her apartment building and was trapped in the crossfire of a weapon fight between two men. She later died in an area hospital.
Mette opened the first black and female bodega in the 1980s, but closed her store during the pandemic.
