A 28-year-old man was shot dead and an innocent bystander was wounded when a gunman opened fire into a crowd in the Bronx Wednesday evening, cops and sources said.
Marji Daoud, of Yonkers, was shot in the head when bullets rang out just before 5 p.m. on University Avenue near West Kingsbridge Road, according to the NYPD.
He was found bleeding out by first responders and rushed to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
A 33-year-old woman was also shot in the left hip during the attack, cops said.
She was able to transport herself to Woodhull Hospital, where she remains in stable condition, according to authorities.
The woman was not the intended target — making her at least the second innocent bystander to be shot in the city in under 24 hours.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Daoud was targeted by the gunman or another innocent bystander.
The suspect, who remains at large, reportedly fired the bullets into a crowd of people with an intended target yet to be determined by authorities, according to sources.
There were no arrests as of early Thursday and the investigation is ongoing.
The deadly shooting follows another spurt of Big Apple gun violence that killed a beloved grandmother and trailblazing businesswoman who was a pillar to her Harlem community.
Excenia Mette, 61, was shot in the head Tuesday night as she stepped out of a salon in her apartment building and was caught in the crossfire of a gun battle between two men. She later died at an area hospital.
Mette opened the first black- and woman-owned bodega in the 1980s, but closed her shop down during the pandemic.
