BY LLOYD MITCHELL
A 34-year-old man was shot and killed under the scaffolding surrounding an apartment building in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, police reported.
The deadly shooting just after 11 a.m. on Dec. 30 at the Armstrong Houses, a NYCHA complex located at 286 Lexington Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Cops from the 79th Precinct found the victim — Demetrius Riggins of Neptune Avenue in Coney Island — with gunshot wounds to the legs, chest and torso. Riggins was removed to Woodhull Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Multiple shell casings were recovered at the tapes off crime scene.
According to Pierre Lax “there was a shooting around the corner from here yesterday [Tuesday].”
No arrests have been made thus far in Wednesday’s shooting, and an investigation is ongoing.
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