NYPD: 1 Killed in Argument on Brooklyn Street Corner

Bed-Stuy resident Christopher Tennison, 32, was shot dead on Saturday night just a few steps from his home, police say.

NYPD officers were conducting a car stop around 8:45 p.m. near East New York Avenue and Junius Street, the department says in a statement, when they “were alerted by a female passerby that there were two men, one armed with a handgun, who were arguing at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Sackman Street.”

But when the officers rushed to the scene of the reported argument, they say 32-year-old Tennison was already dead — and his attacker nowhere in sight.

Tennison was laying on the concrete “unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head,” says the NYPD. Emergency medical responders pronounced him dead on arrival.

“There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing,” police say.

Tennison is listed as a resident of an apartment building at 2352 Atlantic Avenue — just steps from the spot where he was killed.

According to a video report from News 12 Brooklyn: “One witness who declined to speak on camera says he occasionally saw Tennison around the neighborhood with his girlfriend, but he told News 12 the last time he saw the 32-year-old, there was blood coming out of his mouth on the sidewalk.”

Did you know Tennison, or see what happened to him on Saturday night? Reach out: simone.wilson@patch.com.