A 28-year-old man was shot to death at a Bronx deli around the corner from his home, police said Tuesday.
Daquan Andrews was inside the Eltareb Deli Grocery on Home St. near Prospect Ave. in the South Bronx when he was shot in the chest about 8:30 p.m. Monday, cops said.
Andrews got to Lincoln Hospital by private means, where he later died.
The gunman ran off. No arrests have been made.
Andrews lived around the corner from where he was shot, according to cops.
A motive for the shooting was not immediately released.
The fatal shooting happened just three hours after six people were shot in another Bronx grocery, cops said.
Those victims include a mom and her 12-year-old daughter the intended targets of the shooting cruelly used as “human shields,” police said.
Two gunmen opened fire in the middle of White Plains Road in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx — about five miles from where Andrews was shot — striking six people.
”I heard shots. I don’t know how many. After the shots people start running,” said a man who gave his name as Adama, 29, who works on the block nearby the scene.
“At that time I get two, three customers here. They all run,” he added. Two of his customers ran before receiving their food. “They were scared, yeah,” he said.
Adama, who immigrated to NYC from Gambia one year ago, wasn’t immediately sure he heard gunshots but suspected that was what the noise was. “When you hear something like boom boom usually it’s a shooting,” he said.
The mom and daughter were standing at the counter of a bodega when the shooters, who ranged in age from 18 to 21, opened fire outside. The intended targets of the shooting then ran into the bodega, bumped into the pair, and spun them around to use as “human shields,” NYPD Chief of Department John Chell said.
“What we know by video so far is we have two shooters running across White Plains Road shooting at a group of people in front of the convenience store,” who then ran into the store, “grabbed” the mom and daughter to use as barriers to the bullet barrage, Chell said.
All six victims were treated for non-life threatening wounds. No arrests have been made.
