A man riding an electric scooter fatally shot a 45-year-old man just steps from the victim’s Brighton Beach apartment, police said Saturday.
Elijah Scott was outside an apartment building on Brighton 12th St. near Oceanview Ave. just before 10 p.m. Friday when an unidentified gunman opened fire, hitting him multiple times, cops said.
EMS rushed Scott to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, but he couldn’t be saved.
Scott lived down the block from where he was fatally shot, police said.
The gunman sped off down Brighton 12th St. on the electric scooter. No arrests have been made.
Scott has a criminal record with at least eight arrests for assault, weapons possession, possession of stolen property, and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, police sources said.
On Saturday, cops were scouring the area for surveillance footage that could help them identify the gunman.
The fatal shooting comes as police celebrated a 23% drop in shootings for the first three months of the year compared to the same period last year, from 182 incidents down to 140.
