A fight inside a warehouse spread to the street and ended with a young man shot dead by the police in a confusing incident yesterday in the middle of the morning in the Bronx (NYC).
According to NYPD Detective Chief James Essig, members of the Queens Warrant Squad were investigating a separate incident while parked outside the warehouse on East Gun Hill Road and Hull Avenue at 11: 30 am, when a white Lexus parked in double row next to them.
A man aged 29 got out of the car, went into the store and stabbed a young man aged 21 who had a gun. The wounded man chased his assailant and fired into the Lexus, Essig said. Two detectives shot the young gunman, wounding him. He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, where he died.
The man of 29 year old knife wielding fled the scene and was found a short time later with a head injury. He was booked in stable condition at St. Barnabas Hospital. Police say they don’t know what connection the men had to each other or why they were in the warehouse, Fox News said.
“We have to look at the background of the people involved and what they were doing and what sparked this discussion,” Essig said, quoted by ABC News.
The police did not immediately reveal the names of those involved, but apparently the deceased was of Dominican origin, according to NY1 Noticias.
In New York, the interior and surroundings of warehouses are frequently crime scenes, both robberies and homicides.
In early July a Dominican employee was arrested for killing an intruder during a confrontation in a warehouse in Harlem. Days later he was exonerated of all charges, in the midst of a controversy in which even the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, supported him saying that he was a worker who had acted in self-defense. The case also served to revive complaints about the growing insecurity in New York stores and warehouses.