A scooter-riding gunman shot and killed a family man, who was known as a doting uncle, as he walked near his home in Brighton Beach, cops and his family said.
The bullets flew at 2954 Brighton 12th Street around 10 p.m. Friday, leaving Elijah Scott, 45, with multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
“He spoiled his nieces and nephews rotten,” his sister, Ebony Scott, said. “He spoiled his mother rotten. He would do anything for his mother. Family was everything to him.”
A gunman who was riding a scooter fired multiple shots at a 45-year-old man, killing him, cops said. Wayne Carrington
According to the police, Elijah Scott, 45, was hit with multiple gunshot wounds. Kevin C Downs
Police officers investigate the scene of the Brighton Beach shooting. Wayne Carrington“He was the type of person that showed up for anybody who needed him,” she said.
Scott was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn but couldn’t be saved.
The shooter fled on the black electric scooter he was riding.
It wasn’t clear if he fired while riding or stopped, cops said.
“He was the type of person that showed up for anybody who needed him,” his sister, Ebony Scott, said. Kevin C Downs
The killing was under investigation, police said.
Friends set up a memorial of candles for Scott in the hours after his shooting.
“He had a great heart,” a man who identified himself as a friend of the victim said.
The bullets flew at 2954 Brighton 12th Street around 10 p.m. Friday. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post“He was somebody that cared for others,” the friend said. “If something bad was going on, he would get himself involved to stop it.”
Scott had five prior arrests on his rap sheet, with the most recent in 2023 for criminal possession of a weapon, police sources said.
The shooter was wearing a baseball cap, black jacket and gray hooded sweatshirt, police said.
Ballistics were recovered on the scene.
Photos show at least a dozen evidence markers on the sidewalk. No further information was immediately available.
