A police officer combs the scene outside a nail salon in Richmond Hill, Queens close to where an 86-year-old man was shot and killed in a shooting spree on July 8, 2023.
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Detectives in Queens are questioning a person of interest connected to a shooting spree on Saturday morning that left one man dead and two others injured.
Law enforcement sources said a scooter-riding suspect shot the three victims in Richmond Hill between 11:25 and 11:40 a.m. on July 8. The motive for the shootings, each of which occurred in the 102nd Precinct‘s confines, remain unknown at this time, police sources said.
In the first shooting, an 86-year-old man was shot multiple times outside May’s Beauty salon located at 108-19 Jamaica Ave., near 108th Street, at about 11:28 a.m.
EMS rushed the victim to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Police have withheld his identity, pending family notification.
Nearby residents expressed shock over the attack. One woman who was going to get her nails done at the salon said it was “nerve-wracking to know that this happened” on a block filled with “lots of pedestrian traffic and smoke shops.”
In a case of tragic coincidence, the first shooting Saturday occurred just two blocks away from a Jamaica Avenue smoke shop where a 20-year-old man was shot and killed in an armed robbery back in March. The shop has since been shut down thanks to the intervention of local police and a neighborhood lawmaker, state Senator Joseph Addabbo.
About nine minutes after the first Saturday morning attack, cops said, the scooter-riding suspect shot a 63-year-old man at the corner of 134th Street and Jamaica Avenue, about 1.2 miles from the first shooting scene.
Police said the victim suffered a gunshot wound to his shoulder, and was rushed to nearby Jamaica Hospital for treatment of injuries not considered life-threatening.
Finally, law enforcement sources reported, the perpetrator opened fire on a…
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