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Another Shooting in Fordham-Bedford, This Time It’s Murder

Detectives are looking for a gunman who fired shots into a Grand Concourse building, killing a 22-year-old husband and father who lived just a few buildings away. It marked the third shooting incident in the immediate area in the past 10 days.

Officers from the 52nd Precinct were called to 2860 Grand Concourse at East 198th Street at 9:53 p.m. last night and discovered the victim, identified as Raymond Hernandez, 22, in the building’s lobby, bleeding from a bullet wound in his chest.

Hernandez, a husband and father of a 3-year-old girl, according to the Daily News, was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.

Police say Hernandez lived at 2874 Grand Concourse, just a couple of doors down from where he was shot.

One police source said, “We have no arrest, no motive, no story at this point.”

Investigators described the gunman as a male in his late teens or early 20s, wearing blue shorts and a white T-shirt.

On July 11, just a block away from last night’s shooting at 2885 Valentine Ave., a 20-year-old man was shot in the leg at around 5 a.m. On the night of July 5, just two blocks away, on the corner of Bainbridge Avenue and East 198th Street, a 26-year-old man was shot in the hand. No arrests have been made and both investigations are ongoing.
–David Greene

Murder in Mount Hope
Lavon Latimer was gunned down outside of 220 Mount Hope Place last Friday late at night. The 27-year-old resident of Queens was found at 11:26 p.m. with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso by police responding to a call of a male shot outside 1840 Grand Concourse.

Latimer was rushed by EMS to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced DOA. No arrests have been made and the investigation is still ongoing.

Latimer’s death adds another tally to the list of violent crimes this year in the 46th Precinct. Through July, there were four murders, 18 shooting victims, and 16 shooting incidents committed this year in the 46th Precinct. Those numbers are substantially lower than last year’s numbers through the same time period. Through July 7 of 2012, there were the same amount of murders, but there were 34 shooting victims and 28 shooting incidents.
–Michael Brown

Editor’s note: Anyone with information about any of these crimes can call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. You can also submit tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

The Norwood News will continue to monitor the investigation as it unfolds and will have a more detailed story in our next print edition.

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