The NYPD is currently examining security camera footage to assist with their investigation into a homicide after a man was discovered shot to death inside a Van Cortlandt Village apartment.

According to an official police update received Tuesday night, Dec. 29, officers from the 50th precinct were called to ‘The Van Cortlandt Gardens,” located at 3951 Gouverneur Avenue, between Sedgwick Avenue and Van Cortlandt Park South earlier that morning at 10.50 a.m.

According to the statement, officers responded to a 911 call of an aided male inside apartment 1-J. The statement read, “Upon arrival, officers observed a 35-year-old male, unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head.” The victim has since been identified by police as James Kurian, who lived at the location.

The resident continued, “Sometimes, he’d tell me that someone was after him. That’s why he was living here.” The resident said he thought the victim was, allegedly, a dealer, adding, “because every time, I’d come down, I’m smelling weed on the first floor and I’m saying, ‘What’s that?’ Somebody smoking that gas, you know what I’m saying?” he said.

The man added, “And as soon as I see him come out of the apartment, I know it’s definitely him, and he’s telling me he sells that [expletive] and I guess something happened.” Police reported the victim had prior, narcotics-related arrest records.