Man Fatally Shot At Bus Stop In Front Of Farragut Houses

VINEGAR HILL – The NYPD is investigating the shooting death of a 27-year-old man in front of the Farragut Houses Wednesday night.

At approximately 8:45pm on Wednesday, October 25, police say they responded to a 911 call of a person shot in front of 190 York Street (near Gold Street). When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered Melquain Henderson with a gunshot wound to his chest. Henderson was lying on the ground, unconscious and unresponsive. EMS transported Henderson to Brooklyn Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Henderson, who lived nearby on Sands Street between Gold and Navy Streets, was sitting at the bus stop in front of the Farragut Houses when a man in a hooded sweatshirt approached him and shot five times, the New York Daily News reports.

“He’s a good kid who works and takes care of his family,” a friend of the victim told the paper. “He just goes to work and comes home. He doesn’t bother anybody.”

No arrests have been made yet. The investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.