Man dies after being shot in the head in the Bronx, woman injured
KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS, The Bronx (WABC) -- A 28-year-old has died after being shot in the head in the Bronx on Wednesday, according to police.
It happened just before 5 p.m. at 2690 University Ave. in the Kingsbridge Heights section.
Responding officers found the 28-year-old victim, identified as Marji Daoud, with a gunshot wound to the head.
Neighbors who heard the crackle of gunfire saw people scattering on West Kingsbridge Road and University Avenue and then noticed a man who had collapsed in front of a candy and grocery store, not realizing he had been shot in the head.
"I asked this person, he said, 'oh I thought he was sleeping.' Come on, didn't you hear the gunshots? A lot of people heard it. I was over there. I heard three," said eyewitness Rafael Vazquez.
The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical condition but later died from his injuries.
Police also say a second victim, a 33-year-old woman who was shot in the left hip. Police say she got herself all the way to Woodhull Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in a private vehicle. She is listed in stable condition, and is expected to recover.
The shots had been fired from an opposite corner, and police are investigating whether the man was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Sources told Eyewitness News that someone in a group of people standing in front of the store may have been the target of the gunfire.
Police said the suspects are described as four men wearing dark sweatsuits and ski masks who fled northbound on University Avenue.
There's no word yet on what led up to the shooting.
As an NYPD crime scene unit gathered evidence, and officers talked to witnesses, neighbors were rattled that this could have happened to any one of them on the busy afternoon.
"It's not getting any better. Every corner you go, somebody's getting shot. Somebody's getting killed," Vazquez said.
No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.
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