The shooting happened at 174th Street and Morris Avenue near the Cross Bronx Expressway in Claremont just after 7 p.m. Sunday.
An ambulance rushed the victim to the hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
No arrests have been made. There is no word from police on a possible motive.
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