A 66-year-old man, believed to be an innocent bystander, was killed in an Upper Manhattan drive-by shooting Tuesday night, cops said.
Reda Girgis was standing at the intersection at West 162nd Street and Broadway in Washington Heights around 7:10 p.m. when he took a bullet to the head, police said.
It appeared he was not the intended target, authorities said.
Witnesses told investigators that the suspects were firing rounds out of a dark gray SUV, possibly an Audi with New Jersey plates, when Girgis was struck, police sources said.
The vehicle fled south on Broadway, cops said.
Girgis — who lived on that same corner — was rushed to Metropolitan Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
No arrests have been made, and the motive for the shooting — and who may have been targeted — were not immediately known.
One bullet fragment was recovered at the scene, the sources said.
