The man who was executed in broad daylight on the Higher West Aspect over the weekend was brawling along with his girlfriend and “threw her to the bottom” proper earlier than he was killed, police sources stated Monday.
Ronald Thomas, 27, of Virginia was within the metropolis visiting his cousin when he was shot within the head whereas sitting in a white Mercedes Benz GLA 250 round 12:15 p.m. Sunday close to West 102nd Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, cops stated.
Thomas had simply had a bodily struggle with his girlfriend and gotten again into his automotive when the shooter rolled up in one other automobile and fired a gun at him close to the Frederick Douglass Homes — a few block from the NYPD’s 24 Precinct station home.
The girl instructed cops she had walked behind the automobile when she heard a number of gunshots, the police supply stated.
“All of them knew one another,” one other police supply stated.
Images from the scene present the sufferer seated in his SUV with a sheet draped over his physique and a distraught lady close by. It wasn’t clear if the girl was the girlfriend.
The violence occurred amid the NYPD’s announcement that it might start placing extra cops on responsibility at evening to assist stem shootings forward of the summer season months.
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