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Man Shot Dead While Sitting in Range Rover in Astoria Sunday Night: NYPD

30th Avenue and 41st Street in Astoria where a man was gunned down in an SUV Sunday night (GMaps)

April 19, 2021 By Ryan Songalia

A man was fatally shot while sitting inside his SUV in Astoria late Sunday night, police said.

Police responded to a 911 call shortly after 10 p.m. and found a 22-year-old man sitting in the driver’s seat of a late model Range Rover with a gunshot wound to his back near the corner of 41st Street and 30th Avenue.

EMS rushed the man to Mount Sinai Hospital-Queens, where he was pronounced dead.

The victim’s name has not been released pending family notification. No arrests have been made. The investigation remains ongoing.

According to the New York Daily News, the victim was in the car with two other men prior to the shooting. The two men got out of the car and one of them fired the fatal shot before they both fled the scene.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips.

email the author: news@queenspost.com

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AstoriaResident

How terribly sad. When will the 114th start to seriously address what’s happening on and around 30th Ave? The entire stretch is a disaster from 31st to 45th Streets every weekend and most weekday evenings. Speeding, illegally modified vehicles, noise violations, and now how many shootings in the last 6 weeks? The quickly dwindling tax base is going to be non existent if something doesn’t change soon. If the pandemic didn’t scare people off, this kind of nonsense certainly will finish the job.

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Cg

The entire city is going to hell in a hand basket…. its sickening to watch New York City plunge back into the days of my youth when NY was a jungle of drugs , gangs, street crime and poverty.

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