Parkchester News: Second Homicide at Parkchester Building this Summer

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Second Homicide at Parkchester Building this Summer

(Homicide detectives return once again to Unionport Road.--Photo by David Greene)

By David Greene

BRONX, NEW YORK, September 6- Police are looking for the gunman who shot and killed a Parkchester man, the second killing in the building since June.

Few details were available, but according to the NYPD, a still-unidentified 23-year old man was discovered by a friend inside a first-floor apartment at 1553 Unionport Road, at 2:51 p.m., on Friday, August 31.

Police are withholding the name of the victim pending notification of family members, but did state that the victim had lived in the apartment.

The victim was discovered with a single gunshot wound to the head.

The building was the site of a shooting back on June 22, where one man was killed and another wounded, police at the time described that killing as a, "drug related robbery."

Detectives continue to investigate, but could not immediately say if the two shootings were related.

A friend of the victim vowed, "This isn't the last you've heard of this."