Man Shot In Astoria, Steps From Site Of Earlier Fatal Shooting: Police

ASTORIA, QUEENS — A man was shot early Tuesday on an Astoria corner just steps from the site of a fatal shooting months earlier, police said.

Shots rang out around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday near the corner of Astoria Boulevard North and Steinway Street, hitting a 27-year-old man in the left leg, left arm and buttocks, police said.

The man was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, and was expected to survive, police said.

The corner is just feet away from Solletto, the bar on Steinway Street where 27-year-old school safety officer Mye Johnson was shot and killed in March while celebrating her birthday. Police arrested 29-year-old Quasawn Williams in connection with the shooting, which also wounded two other people.

The suspect in Tuesday's shooting is described only as a man wearing a black hoodie, black hat and blue jeans, police said.

He fled southbound along Steinway Street in a white Dodge Durango afterward, according to police.

Videos posted to the Citizen app showed police vehicles surrounding the Emporium gas station on the northeast corner of the intersection following the shooting.

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