A part-time bouncer was shot and killed inside an iconic Nolita bar once featured in the HBO series “Girls,” cops said.
The 39-year-old was at Tom & Jerry’s Bar at 288 Elizabeth St. when the shooter started blasting into a crowd out front around 3:30 a.m., police said.
Police investigate the fatal shooting at Tom & Jerry’s bar at 288 Elizabeth St. in Manhattan. G.N.Miller/NYPostThe bullets smashed “through the glass window and hit the victim” twice in the chest and once in the stomach, a police spokesman said.
The victim, who occasionally works as a bouncer at the bar, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital but couldn’t be saved, cops said.
The gunman ran off towards East Houston Street and was being sought by police.
Witnesses told cops there was no interaction between the two men before the shooting, but police were unsure if the victim was targeted, cops said.
The shooting victim was 39 years old. G.N.Miller/NYPost
The shots came through the window of Tom & Jerry’s and struck the victim in the chest. G.N.Miller/NYPostThe bar gained notoriety for a scene in the HBO show “Girls,” when one of the characters stops in to have a White Russian, which leads to a rendezvous with a stranger in the bathroom.
