A 33-year-old man was shot to death in front of a Bronx restaurant less than a year after his release from prison, police said Monday.
Kemahni Smalls and a 32-year-old man who survived were both shot in the back in front of Shaking Crab in Pelham Parkway about 7:50 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
Medics rushed the younger man to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition. Smalls showed up at the same hospital by private means and could not be saved.
Smalls had been arrested five times in the past and was conditionally released by parole last March after serving nearly five-and-a-half years in state prison for an attempted assault conviction on Staten Island, where he lived, records show.
The gunman, clad in a red-and-black sweatshirt, dark-colored pants and black sneakers, ran off from the scene on White Plains Road near Pelham Parkway South, leaving behind two shell casings, police said. He has not been caught.
It wasn’t clear what sparked the shooting or if the victims had been inside the restaurant.
