MAN KILLED AT BREUKELEN

By Charles Rogers

Police vehicle guards the area where yellow tape is tied across walkways to entrance and parking lot of crime scene at 534 East 108th Street. Charles Rogers A 58-year-old resident of Elmont, New York, who was visiting a friend in the Breukelen Houses complex Monday morning, was lured by a group of men to the building's parking lot and shot four times, police said. The victim later died in the hospital.

Detectives from the 69th Precinct said the man, whose name was withheld pending notification of family members, had become involved in an argument with a group of men outside the building at 553 East 108th Street near Stanley Avenue and went inside to the apartment at about 8 a.m. He returned to the parking lot just a few minutes later and was confronted with the men again. This time, though, one of them had a gun.

NYPD spokesman Phil Filippazzo said that, as the argument heated up, the man with the gun fired at least seven times, according to witnesses, striking the victim at least four times in the torso and legs.

The shooter and his companions then fled in an unknown direction in what was reported to be a green vehicle.

Witnesses called 911 and Emergency Medical Service technicians took the victim to Brookdale Hospital where he was first listed in critical condition but died about an hour later, according to Filippazzo.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the 69th Precinct Detective Squad at (718) 257-6215 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. All calls will be kept strictly confidential.