A 51-year-old man was shot to death on a residential Queens street, cops said Sunday.
Sherman Walker was shot in the neck, abdomen and left leg near Murdock Ave. and 204th St. in St. Albans about 6 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Medics rushed him to Jamaica Hospital but he couldn’t be saved.
“It sounded like eight shots,” said neighbor Darren Gordon, a 20-year resident of the block who was watching football when he heard the gunfire. “Rapid order, it was like four and then a little three-to-five-second break then it was like four more.”
He looked out the window and saw the victim on the ground.
“He wasn’t moving,” Gordon said. “They was working hard. EMS was working his chest. They got him out of here pretty quick.”
Gordon heard no commotion before the shots. “It’s a quiet neighborhood,” he said. “I’m shocked.”
Walker lived in a basement apartment on the block where he was shot, neighbors said.
“He was quiet. He was a funny-going guy. Always on the move,” said neighbor Gina Fish, 35. “He was mostly very outgoing. He was a jokester also.”
Walker often went to parties — “He was a party person” — and didn’t strike Fish as rowdy or a troublemaker.
“I wasn’t expecting it,” she said of his slaying.
The shooting marks the first homicide of the year in the 113th Precinct, which saw seven killings in 2024.
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