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Man, 19, shot dead on Jamiaca, Queens street: NYPD


A 19-year-old man shot on a Queens street was rushed to the hospital by two people but could not be saved, police said Friday.

The two people, whose relationship to the victim was not immediately clear, are cooperating with detectives, police said.

Officers were called to New York Hospital Queens at 10:28 p.m. Thursday. When they got there they were told that the duo had shown up a short time earlier with the victim, who had been shot in the chest.

A 19yr old man was pronounced dead at Queens Hospital, which he was taken to by private means, after he was shot in the chest inside of 178-16 Leslie Road in Queens on Thursday March 21, 2024. 2228. Photos taken on Friday March 22, 2024. 0718. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)
A 19-year-old man was shot inside a home on Leslie Road in Queens on Thursday, police said. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Police determined the shooting had taken place more than three miles away in Jamaica, on Leslie Road near 178th Place.

It wasn’t clear what sparked the shooting.

Police said the victim had no arrest history.

 

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