Man Killed After Shot Inside Harlem Car: Police

HARLEM, NY — A man is dead after being discovered inside a Harlem car with a gunshot wound to his chest, according to police.

At around 6:20 p.m., police were responding to an emergency call when they discovered a 39-year-old man who had been shot in the chest sitting in the driver's seat of a car parked on West 135th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, officials said.

First responders rushed the wounded man to Mount Sinai Morningside, but emergency room doctors were unable to save the man's life, according to the NYPD.

Police said they had not arrested anyone in connection to the shooting and that they were withoulding the name of the deceased pending family notification.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).