BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A man was fatally shot in the chest in the lobby of a Brooklyn NYCHA building early Saturday morning, police said.
Authorities found Dawuand Darrien, 29, with a gunshot wound to the chest at the Vernon Houses on Vernon Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 2:45 a.m., according to the NYPD.
Darrien, a Pennsylvania resident, was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved, police said.
There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
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