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At least five shot across NYC overnight One person was killed and four others were wounded in gunplay across the city on Saturday night and early Sunday morning. In Manhattan, Rashaun Pope, 21, was gunned down. Police say the victim had arrived at the hospital in a private vehicle after being shot in the chest near West 125th Street and 12th Avenue in Harlem.

Rashaun Pope showed up at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s after being fatally being shot in the chest around 1:25 a.m. late early Sunday. The doctors that were on duty at the time could not save him. Following the shooting, cops questioned his friends, families, and potential witnesses. However, there were no immediate arrests or valid witnesses at the crime scene.

According to neighbors, Pope lived in the Fleetwood-Concourse Village section of the Bronx with his two brothers.

“I just him last night,” said neighbor Gracie Ramirez, 43, a taxi driver.

Ramirez said he ran into Pope while working later in the night a block from Pope’s home.

“I see him and say hello,” Ramirez said. “He’s a good guy, he sits outside and says hi.”

Following the shooting, hours later, Ramirez heard from Pope’s mother that her son was dead.

“She says ‘Gracie, I need you. Something happened, and I say, what happened? And she says My baby boy. I really don’t know what I’m going to do.”

The 21-year-old’s death sparked an outpouring of grief on social media from his close friends, family members, and strangers who want justice for the young man’s life.

“It’s too much craziness to beefing with people for no reason,” Nala Jae wrote on Facebook. “Rashaun Pope why did it have to be you !? Haven’t been this hurt since my dad died.”

“Who gives you the right to take someone’s life???” Chanel Brown posted. “Rashaun wish I would’ve hugged you a little longer the last time I seen you, maybe make another joke to see ya smile again, was my first friend . . . . when I moved to the Bronx love you bro I wish I had that choice to tell you face to face!!!”

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