A 57-year-old man with a walker was fatally shot in the head — and an innocent 34-year-old woman wounded — when gunfire erupted near Fordham University on Sunday, cops and sources said.
Kevin Jennings was gunned down when a man opened fire at East 188th Street and Marion Avenue in Fordham Heights, a few blocks from the school, around 6:50 p.m., police said.
A woman walking nearby was also blasted in the leg, cops said.
Cops probe Sunday’s fatal shooting of Kevin Jennings, a 57-year-old Bronx man who used a walker. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
An innocent 34-year-old woman was also shot and wounded in Sunday’s violence, sources said. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/ShutterstockInvestigators are still probing whether Jennings, who lived in the borough but about 3 miles away, was targeted or simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, sources said. The woman was an innocent bystander, cops and sources said.
Both were rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Jennings succumbed to his injuries and the woman was listed in stable condition.
Jennings’ kin told The Post that the dead man was not the intended target, either.
“From what Homicide [cops] told me, he was an innocent bystander,” said a man named Jamal, who declined to give his last name but identified himself as the husband of the victim’s niece.
The gunman, last seen wearing a black T-shirt and red sweatpants, fled, cops said. William Miller“He was just at the bodega, getting something to eat, got outside and was eating in his chair,” he said of Jennings. “Then some guys were arguing.
“They weren’t arguing with him. He was sitting by the water hydrant in his chair,” Jamal said.
“Man just goes out to the store and relax[es] and can’t even come back home.
“This is a serious matter that’s going on everywhere,” Jamal said.
He added that his wife, Jennings’ niece, was “at St. Barnabas to go deal with the situation from last night until they take him over to Manhattan, to the morgue.
“It’s a lot for her right now. All this stuff on top of her, she don’t know what to do right now. it’s really hitting her,” Jamal said.
The gunman, last seen wearing a black T-shirt and red pants, fled, cops said.
At least three other innocent bystanders have been shot in the Big Apple in the past month — all of them fatally.
In late April, a trailblazing Harlem bodega owner and community fixture — Excenia Mette, 61 — was fatally shot in the head when she ran outside to check on her grandson as bullets flew.
Barely a day had passed when Daoud Marji, a 28-year-old plumber’s apprentice, was killed in the Bronx in another stray-bullet shooting.
The motive for the deadly violence was not immediately known. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/ShutterstockAnd just last week, Evette Jeffrey, 16, was fatally struck by a stray round in a Bronx schoolyard as a feud between rival gangs escalated, cops said.
Two teens have been taken into custody in that shooting — the 14-year-old alleged shooter and a 13-year-old boy accused of handing him the gun, cops and sources said.
The younger teen was just picked up by authorities Monday, sources said.
