Two men were killed, including one young dad, and ten other people were injured in a spate of shootings throughout the city last night and early this morning. Queens father Anthony McRae, 22, was fatally shot around 4:45 a.m. this morning in front of the Hamzah Deli and Grocery on Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville. "He loved to work but we always said go back to school. Then he had a son. He always wanted to do best by him...Isn’t that something? He had to lose his father on Father’s Day," his Aunt, Vivian Presley, told the Post.
McRae had put off college, and was working two jobs, at Foot Locker and AT&T, to help support his two-year-old son Carter. McRae was shot at least four times—police are reviewing deli surveillance tapes, but don't have suspects or motive yet. McRae's friend Josh Roman, who lives around the corner from where the shooting occurred, said the shots woke him: "We heard a girl screaming, ’Is he still breathing?’ We didn’t even know who it was until we came outside."
Three young teens were shot in Marine Park in Brooklyn during an apparent argument over a 16-year-old's bike-three people were injured, one critically. Jerry Armstrong, 45, was found fatally shot on 95th street in Brooklyn; two shootings left two men wounded in Brooklyn, and two shootings in Queens left two wounded there. One person was also wounded in Harlem. And five other people were injured in a shooting in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens as well.
