35-year-old man shot, killed in Tremont was 'gunned down senselessly'
TREMONT, the Bronx (WABC) -- A Bronx family is mourning after a 35-year-old man was killed overnight Tuesday and say he was gunned down senselessly.
Police say Juan Lluverez was shot once in the abdomen and once in the leg on East Burnside Avenue just after 11 p.m.
The shooting comes just a day before Lluverez was set to leave New York for vacation. His family said he had just stopped to get his haircut.
He was taken to St Barnabas Hospital and pronounced dead.
He was a "very chill guy" who "had no problems with anybody," Gabriel Lluverez, the victim's father, told Eyewitness News. "He was a good kid. He was just gunned down senselessly, senselessly. For no reason. Who knows why."
Lluverez worked in two convenience stores in the Bronx, according to his father.
He said he can't imagine why someone would take his son's life.
"We are going to miss him. We are going to miss him dearly. He was a good kid. He was just gunned down senselessly," Lluverez said.
The NYPD has recovered surveillance video of a suspect on a Citi Bike opening fire on the victim.
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