A younger man fatally shot within the head within the Bronx was an harmless bystander visiting with an out-of-town buddy from Detroit, his shell-shocked father instructed The Submit Thursday.
The tragic killing of Daoud Marji, a 28-year-old plumber’s apprentice, Wednesday night marked the second time in as many days that an harmless New Yorker was slain in random gun violence on the town’s streets.
“What am I going to do? He was my blood,” heartbroken Saed Marji, 56, stated from his dwelling in Yonkers.
The grieving dad stated he inspired Daoud to not journey to the Bronx, as a result of he heard the world was unhealthy.
However Marji pressed on, bringing him to College Avenue close to West Kingsbridge Highway simply earlier than 5 p.m. — the fallacious place on the fallacious time.
“Then I get a name from a Detroit quantity – ‘Daoud, he obtained shot,’” Saed stated, recounting the fateful name.
“I”m a powerful man, however I’m shocked. I’ve to care for my household. My spouse, she’s very unhealthy.”
A trailblazing Harlem bodega proprietor and neighborhood fixture — Excenia Mette, 61 — was additionally fatally shot within the head Tuesday when she ran outdoors to verify on her grandson.
The Harlem capturing prompted an outcry of grief from a neighborhood typically gripped by gun violence.
Barely a day had handed earlier than Marji, too, was randomly gunned down. One other bystander within the Bronx capturing — a 33-year-old lady — was additionally shot within the chaos, police stated.
The capturing unfolded when a shooter or shooters fired bullets in a crowd, law-enforcement sources stated.
Marji had immigrated to the US from Jordan when he was a baby, his father stated. He labored as a plumber’s apprentice.
Household buddy Ray Khoury, 56, stated Marji didn’t have a “unhealthy bone in his physique.”
“He got here when he was very younger from the Center East together with his household, a hardworking household,” Khoury stated.
“They all the time helped out the neighborhood, particularly Daoud. It’s an awesome loss for our neighborhood. He was very outgoing, very useful, very well mannered. Referred to as all people uncle or auntie.”
