A suspect in the shooting death of a Con Ed worker during a road rage clash on the George Washington Bridge has surrendered to cops, police sources said Wednesday.
The suspect is the driver of a black Range Rover that police have video of being involved in the shooting on the New Jersey-bound upper level of the Hudson River span about 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, the sources said.
The suspect is currently at the 33rd Precinct stationhouse with charges pending, according to the sources.
Victim Koran Irvine was on his way home from work in his dark blue Volkswagen hatchback when he was shot by a fellow driver on the Manhattan side of the bridge on the W. 179th St. entrance ramp. Cops suspect road rage was the motive.
“It just doesn’t really make sense. He doesn’t really bother anybody,” said the victim’s cousin’s 38-year-old husband, who lives in Canarsie, Brooklyn, and declined to give his name. “He was fun, outgoing. A lot of energy. A very active father.”
Irvine was shot in the shoulder and the bullet travelled to his head, police said, but he managed to continue onto the bridge before crashing in the middle of the span. A bullet hole was found in the rear windshield, police sources said.
The killer sped off.
Medics rushed Irvine to Englewood Medical Center in New Jersey, where he died. A longtime resident of Flatbush, Brooklyn, he and his family in recent years had moved to Valley Cottage in Rockland County, N.Y.