A 33-year-old man was shot and killed Thursday afternoon outside a NYCHA complex on the Upper West Side, according to police, in a broad-daylight attack that left neighbors rattled.
Officers said the victim was hit multiple times in the chest and later died at Mount Sinai Morningside. Witnesses told investigators a masked gunman took off on a scooter immediately after the shooting, speeding away as people on the block scrambled for cover.
As reported by New York Daily News, police identified the victim as 33-year-old Rashaun Hopkins and said the shooting unfolded on West 104th Street near Manhattan Avenue at about 4:57 p.m. The outlet reports Hopkins lived in a tower within the Frederick Douglass Houses about three blocks from where he was shot and was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he was pronounced dead.
Investigation underway
The killing took place within the NYPD’s 24th Precinct, which lists its station house at 151 West 100th Street on the city’s site, according to the NYPD. Detectives from the precinct were canvassing West 104th Street and the surrounding blocks, hunting for surveillance footage and additional witnesses, precinct officials said…