A 23-year-old man was shot dead outside his Bronx apartment building early Saturday — at the same spot where cops had broken up a large fight a short time earlier, police said.
The victim is the fourth person to be shot and the third person to be killed in the Throgs Neck neighborhood in a week, cops said.
Shane Sanchez was arguing with a man outside his Sampson Ave. building near Huntington Ave., part of NYCHA’s Throggs Neck Houses, around 1:45 a.m. when he was blasted in the chest.
EMS rushed him to Jacobi Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.
A short time earlier, cops had been called to the same address to break up a large fight outside, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the two acts of violence were related.
The gunman who shot Sanchez ran off. No arrests have been made.
Five days earlier, on Monday, two men were shot to death on Brush Ave. near Schley Ave., just outside Ferry Point Park in Throgs Neck, cops said.
Victim Adam Waldropt, 29, was shot in the abdomen and buttocks and Gabriel Alvarez, 22, was hit in the armpit and shoulder, police said. Medics rushed both victims to Jacobi Medical Center but they could not be saved.
Two men wearing ski masks fled the scene on a moped and are being sought.
Six men and a woman were near the corner when the 6 a.m. shooting erupted. Cops released images of the seven, who are wanted for questioning in the killing.
Meanwhile, two days before the double murder, a 21-year-old man was shot and wounded around 3:30 a.m. on the same desolate block, which is about a mile and a half from where Sanchez was killed, cops said.
It was not immediately clear if any or all of the incidents are linked.
The 45th Precinct, which includes Throgs Neck, had seen three murders this year before the recent bloodshed, compared to two by the same point last year. The precinct had seen six people shot this year through Sunday compared to four victims during the same period last year.
Anyone with information regarding any of these shootings is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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