Convicted killer shot dead on Brooklyn street, sources say

Police respond to the scene of a shooting at the NYCHA Sumner Houses on Myrtle Avenue and Throop Avenue in Brooklyn on Monday.
Police respond to the scene of a shooting at the NYCHA Sumner Houses on Myrtle Avenue and Throop Avenue in Brooklyn on Monday.(Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)

A convicted killer who did time for a 1994 homicide was shot dead on a Brooklyn street Monday night, police sources said.
The 43-year-old victim was shot in the head on Myrtle Ave. near Marcus Garvey Blvd. about 8:30 p.m., cops said.
The shooter ran into the nearby Sumner Houses complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant, sources said. Medics took the victim to Woodhull Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.
Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the NYCHA Sumner Houses on Myrtle Avenue and Throop Avenue in Brooklyn, New York on Monday, April 20.
Police investigate the scene of a shooting at the NYCHA Sumner Houses on Myrtle Avenue and Throop Avenue in Brooklyn, New York on Monday, April 20. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
Police have not yet released the name of the victim.
Sources said he was convicted of manslaughter in 1995 for a killing on Sept. 19, 1994. He was sentenced to eight-and-a-third to 25 years in prison, and released in 2011.
Cops have yet to make an arrest in his slaying.

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