NYPD released video of Sunday’s Harlem smoke shop shooting in hopes of getting the public’s help in identifying the gunman who killed a patron in the store.
The New York Post reported that a “person of interest” with “a backward black baseball hat and a black jacket with a red and white design on the front and patches on the shoulder” is being sought.
The surveillance video from the incident shows a number of patrons inside the smoke shop at the time of the shooting.
A 36-year-old customer was shot in the head around 7:50 p.m. The customer tried to get up, which is when the person of interest allegedly walked up to him and shot him the back. The customer was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The person of interest and the shooting victim appear to have words just prior to the deadly exchange.
The person of interest fled the scene on foot, going “northbound on Lenox Avenue toward West 126th Street.”
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