A 45-year-old man shot and killed in Brooklyn was a beloved father to three, including a 16-year-old boy who “needs his dad,” the victim’s devastated sister said.
Gamaliel Oliver showed up at Brookdale University Hospital just after 2:35 p.m. Wednesday with a gunshot wound to his abdomen, police said.
Police were initially unsure when and where Oliver was shot, but later determined he was gunned down on E. 98th St. near Lenox Road in East Flatbush about an hour before he arrived at the hospital by private means.
Once Oliver’s sister in Georgia heard the news of his death, she got in the car and raced to New York with her family.
“The first phone call his daughter, my niece, told me that he was shot in his stomach and that he was in surgery,” said Toya Oliver, 38. “And then, within almost 10 minutes later, I got a call back saying that he died.”
Oliver was born and raised in Brownsville alongside his sister, who eventually moved south.
“It’s a mess,” said Toya Oliver. “I don’t even know what happened. He had nieces and nephews. He had a huge family.”