East Harlem Daylight Shooting Leaves 1 Killed, 1 Hurt, Cops Say

EAST HARLEM, NY — One man was killed and another was hurt in a shooting that broke out Monday afternoon in front of an East Harlem public housing development, an NYPD spokesman said.

Officers responding to a shooting at the Taft Houses building on Fifth Avenue and East 115th Street around 2 p.m. found a 24-year-old man shot in the head and a 21-year-old shot in the leg, an NYPD spokesman said.. EMS pronounced the man who was shot in the head dead on the scene and rushed the other victim to St. Luke's hospital with non life-threatening injuries, police said.

A man wearing gray pants and a red or pink shirt fled the scene, an NYPD spokesman said. Police are still investigating the shooting and have not made an arrest, the spokesman said.