Updated Tues., Feb. 24, 1:23 p.m.: On Mon., Feb. 23, at around 4:33 p.m., a 33-year-old man was fatally shot in front of 20 Avenue D, in the Lillian Wald Houses, by an unknown suspect. Police and E.M.S. responded and, the victim was transported to Beth Israel Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
On Tuesday, police identified the slain man as Shemrod Isaac, a resident of 20 Avenue D.
On Monday, Bedford + Bowery reported that two Wald Houses residents identified the victim as an aspiring rapper who went by the name Shamrock.
“I would always pass him [in the hallway],” one of them said. “He always had Pampers and baby formula.”
The Daily News reported that, according to police sources, the shooter was a man in his 30s, wearing a tan jacket, blue pants and multicolored hat, and that he fled into a building on F.D.R. Drive.
The two men were arguing right before the shooting, witnesses told police, according to the News.
Isaac reportedly had a criminal record, mostly for drugs and resisting arrest, according to police sources.
