Crime & Safety
Man Fatally Shot On East Harlem Street, Police Say
A 20-year-old East Harlem resident was shot and killed Sunday night.
EAST HARLEM, NY — An East Harlem man was shot and killed Sunday about 20 blocks from his neighborhood home, police said.
Officers responding to reports of shots fired near Lexington Avenue and East 126th Street shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday found the body of 20-year-old Pond King, an NYPD. King was unconscious, unresponsive and suffering gunshot wounds to his torso and hip, police said.
Medics rushed the 20-year-old to Harlem Hospital, but he could not be saved, police said.
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An NYPD investigation into the shooting is ongoing and no arrests have been made, an NYPD spokesperson said.
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