Sorai King, 20, was on his solution to the shop round 1:30 p.m. when he was shot within the neck and chest close to E. 217th St. and Bronxwood Ave. in Williamsbridge, police mentioned.
A 20-year-old man was shot to demise after his assailant chased him into the 3724 Shak Deli within the Bronx on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Kerry Burke for New York Day by day Information)
EMS transported King to Jacobi Medical Middle, the place docs pronounced him deceased.
“He was going to the store for his mother. He was very loving. He went to the store and he never came back,” the sufferer’s 15-year-old niece Nana King mentioned. “We only knew something was wrong when the detectives came.”
“He was very loving, and if I had any problems, I could always run to him,” the niece mentioned earlier than dissolving into tears.
Sonja King mentioned her youngest son was about to graduate from highschool and deliberate to enter the trades.
“He was a smart kid. He was just graduating from Independence High School here in the Bronx,” the mother mentioned. “He just got (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) certified. He wanted to do construction. That was my youngest son. It’s heartbreaking.”
“He was just going to the store. He didn’t bother anybody,” Deyo mentioned, including: “We want justice.”
The supervisor of the bodega, who witnessed the conflict, mentioned the sufferer and one other man had been combating outdoors the shop earlier than they each bumped into the bodega.
“They were fighting outside the store. They both ran in and he shot him,” mentioned the supervisor of Shak Deli, who declined to provide his identify for worry of retaliation.
He mentioned he didn’t know what the combat was about.
“I don’t know them. They weren’t customers,” the deli supervisor mentioned. “They just ran in and he fired. He was dead.”
There have been no arrests; police mentioned the investigation is ongoing..
