A 35-year-old man has died after being shot point-blank in the head in the Bronx on Friday afternoon, cops said.
A lone gunman opened fire in front of a building on Stebbins Ave. near Boston Rd., one block away from Crotona Park around 1:15 p.m., striking the victim in the head, police said.
Witnesses said the shooter first went into a nearby deli on Boston Rd. before coming out and turning the corner onto Stebbins Ave., where he blasted the victim at close range.
“He shot him in the head,” said a detective at the scene, adding, “This is a homicide investigation.”
“He was a young guy, like a teenager,” a witness said of the shooter. “He came out (of) the deli, went around the corner, and ‘pop!’ shot him in the head,” he said, not sharing his name for fear of retaliation.
“It was a guy with dreads and glasses,” the witness said of the victim. “He was dead.”
EMS rushed the victim in critical condition to Lincoln Hospital, where he died a short time later.
Hours later at the scene, the victim’s eyeglasses could be seen in a pool of blood on the street, with his headphones a few feet away. A single bullet casing lay in the gutter.
Police have not arrested anyone yet and the investigation is ongoing, cops said.
The victim’s identity is being withheld until after his family has been notified first.
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