A 24-year-old man, who is a relative of an NYPD officer, was fatally shot in the Bronx early Saturday morning, according to an NYPD spokesman. The victim was discovered at the intersection of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Macombs Place with a gunshot wound to his right eye around 1:30 a.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The identity of the man has not yet been released, and the exact nature of his relationship to the police officer was not immediately clear, authorities stated. The incident occurred at approximately 1:45 a.m. inside an apartment building located at 2816 Frederick Douglass Boulevard.