NYC Bicyclist Fatally Shot While on the Way to Shoot Another Person
by Amy Furr
New York City saw at least three individuals shot overnight, and one was reportedly on his way to commit a shooting.
According to a New York Post article published Tuesday:
The slain 26-year-old man was riding a bike at Crown Street and Rogers Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, around 2 a.m. Tuesday when he was blasted in the head by a drive-by shooter in a dark-colored sedan, cops said.
The victim – who had been arrested a dozen times in the city – was wearing black rubber gloves when he was shot, and investigators believe he had planned to carry out a shooting with two other guys, police sources said.
He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The Post report noted the incident was believed to be gang-related.
Man shot dead in NYC while bicycling to shoot someone else: cops https://t.co/KLEf3A0HUV pic.twitter.com/eC8VwV4FYB
— New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2022
A few hours before, a man was shot in the buttocks and lower back in Manhattan and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. However, a motive regarding the incident was not immediately known.