KEW GARDENS, QUEENS (WABC) — A new video was released of two men who allegedly fired multiple shots into a crowd in a Queens bar, killing an innocent bystander.
Video shows the two suspects stroll into the mostly empty bar with both of their faces covered.
The suspect in the pink hoodie appears to draw his weapon from the back of his pants and the pair heads straight to the back of the bar.
“Just after that happened, there were cops here on the corner every other hour,” Connor Khavason said.
Connor Khavason is a barber around the corner.
He arrived at work Tuesday morning to homicide detectives and evidence markers scattered everywhere and a firearm lying on the sidewalk at Metropolitan Avenue by Lefferts Boulevard.
Khavason says the bar generally draws a friendly crowd.
“A lot of college kids that are finishing up school and St. John’s they come around and locals come. It’s a very fun environment. It’s a good vibe The neighborhood is very quiet and it’s very family-oriented. And it’s very rare that you hear something like this happening around the neighborhood,” Khavason said.
Police say it happened around 1:30 Tuesday morning in Kew Gardens, Queens.
Residents say they heard a loud argument and five gunshots.
Investigators say one of those bullets struck 29-year-old Demitri McKay in his left arm, went through his arm and struck him in his heart.
McKay’s father is declining to speak on camera, saying his son was a humble young man who rarely went out and wouldn’t want the attention.
He says he was with his girlfriend that night.
She told him that when the two men came in, they got into an argument with someone in the back.
So they got up to leave, and that’s when gunfire rang out.
Bar employees also say McKay was “very much an innocent bystander,” and that the suspects came in looking for trouble, but it was with other patrons.
Police have made no arrests.
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