A 27-year-old man shot to death outside a Brooklyn NYCHA complex in what cops are investigating as a possible road rage clash was delivering pizza when he was murdered, his family told an Indian news outlet.
Gurdeep Singh was shot seven times in the chest and torso during a confrontation on Crescent St. near Stanley Ave. outside the Pink Houses in East New York about 9:55 p.m. Friday, cops said.
Singh’s bullet-ridden body was found near his moped, a police source said. Witnesses told police the shooter fled the scene in a black Lexus, sources said.
Singh immigrated to the U.S. from Kapurthala in Punjab in northwestern India 10 years ago and worked delivering pizzas to support his family back home, , his father Pyara Lal told The Indian Express.
“We had taken a huge loan to send him abroad, and even after all these years, the debt has not been fully repaid,” the father told the outlet.
Singh lived in Richmond Hill, Queens, with his cousin, who told the family that Singh was delivering a pizza when he was attacked, according to The Indian Express.
The family has appealed to the Indian government for help bringing Singh’s body home to Punjab, the outlet reported.
So far there have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing, according to police.