A Chinese food deliveryman was fatally shot in the head on a Staten Island dead end street last night. Residents say the street is notoriously known for violent robberies, with one woman telling the Staten Island Advance, "It's a set-up—they call delivery people, and when they come out here, they rob them... This has happened half a dozen times, if not more."
Police say they responded to a report about a shooting at 8:45 p.m. in front of 244 Grandview Avenue. They found a man in his 50s with a gunshot wound to the head. The victim was pronounced dead at Richmond Medical Center.
One local resident named Infinite Grover told the Daily News, "It's a tragedy. It's crazy someone would do something like that. How much could he have on him, $40? This guy was just trying to make a living. I think someone used the address because the street's a dead end. They knew there was no place to go." However, the News reports, "Police said it was not immediately clear if the killer had placed the order or if the victim was ambushed during a routine delivery."
And the woman who mentioned the previous incidents to the Advance added, "No one wants to deliver here anymore—there's a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, none of them want to come... It's scary because I have 3-year-old twins and I'm pregnant. There's gunshots all the time."
