A man was fatally shot in the head and a woman was wounded while riding in a car after a gunman driving another vehicle opened fire on a Bronx expressway, police said.
According to police, a 27-year-old man was at the wheel of a red 2010 Toyota Corolla with two passengers — a man and woman, both 21 — heading west on the Cross Bronx Expressway when the driver in another car opened fire about 5:45 a.m., striking both passengers.
The driver of the Toyota wasn’t hurt. The shooter took off and has not been caught, cops said.
The wounded victims arrived at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia in Washington Heights in the shot-up car just after 6 a.m., police said.
EMS then rushed the victims to Harlem Hospital, where the male passenger — identified by police as Ivan DeJesus Bueno, of Patterson, N.J. — was pronounced dead. The female victim was in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the shoulder..
The dead man was married to the wounded woman, PIX11 reported. The driver of the Corolla was taken into police custody on suspicion of DWI, the station said.
The double-shooting was one of four slayings across four boroughs during a bloody eight-hour stretch. They include the 10:35 p.m. Saturday shooting of a 25-year-old man in the Bronx, the fatal stabbing of a Staten Island man by his housemate about 1:45 a.m. Sunday and the shooting of a man behind a Queens retail strip about 3 a.m. Sunday, cops said.
