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Two Dead In Harlem Drive-By Shooting
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Jen Chung
Published Aug 17, 2014
Modified Aug 17, 2014
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Police are investigating the double murder of two men outside a Harlem bodega earlier this morning.
According to the NYPD, at around 2:53 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to a 911 call about two men who were shot outside the Fedel Gourmet Deli on Broadway at 151st Street. When police got there, they found a 21-year-old man, unconscious, with a gunshot wound to his neck and a 29-year-old man, also unconscious, with a gunshot wound to his back.
Photograph by David Torres
The 21-year-old, Kenny Jimenez, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at the scene while the 29-year-old, Francisco Mercedez of the Bronx, died at Harlem Hospital.
Photograph by David Torres
Other reports say that the men were killed by a motorist who "got out of his car and opened fire."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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