Homicide: 79-Year-Old Man Shot and Killed on MGB [Video]

Residents along Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue were shocked and saddened after a long-time community member was hit and killed by a stray bullet yesterday.

79-year-old Andy Burke was sitting outside a barbershop along Marcus Garvey Boulevard when he was caught in a shootout around 5:30pm Wednesday.

A preliminary investigation determined that a man was being chased by two unknown black males who were shooting at him.

At least four bullets were fired in broad daylight. One hit Burke in the neck. Some witnesses ran up to try and help Burke as he lay in a pool of blood. Surveillance video showed them fleeing the scene.

“And he’s reaching up, trying to reach for me, and I can’t even help him. I can’t do nothing to help him,” one neighbor recounted in a CBS Report.

“He’s been in this neighborhood so long. He never bothered nobody. And now his family has to prepare for a funeral and everything. It’s not right,”

Burke was transported to Interfaith Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Anyone with information in regards to this homicide is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.

The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.