The NYPD is investigating the death of a man who was found shot inside a car in Queens on Wednesday night.
Authorities say that at 11:29 p.m. on Nov. 23 officers from the 105th Precinct responded to a 911 call regarding a man shot in the vicinity of 145th Drive and 184th Street in Springfield Gardens. Upon their arrival, officers found the victim, a 40-year-old man, in the driver’s seat of a 2018 Nissan Maxima, unconscious and unresponsive in the car with gunshot wounds to his chest.
After the victim was shot, the Nissan crashed into a telephone pole near Springfield Park. Paramedics rushed the victim to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity is being withheld pending family notification.
No arrests have been made at this time. The investigation is ongoing.