New York Daily News

My brother was killed in cold blood

- BY RAYMOND GOMEZ AND THOMAS TRACY

No human deserved the fate of Alfred Simpson, his grieving sister said Saturday as his killer remained at large two weeks after Simpson and a pal were fatally shot in a drive-by Brooklyn killing.

“Whoever did this is a heartless, cold-blooded murderer,” Simpson’s sister told the Daily News, declining to be named.

“They don’t even do this to animals.”

Simpson, 58, was shot about 6p.m.onJune2ash­esatinacar with longtime pal Andrew Grizzle, 66, at E. 92nd St. and Church Ave. in East Flatbush.

A gunman pulled up to the men in a Lincoln sedan and opened fire, hitting both men numerous times in their chests.

Grizzle (bottom inset) was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital, where he died a few hours later. Simpson (top inset), of Queens, clung to life for eight days before he was declared brain-dead and was taken off a respirator. He died Tuesday.

Dabbing tears from her eyes, Simpson’s sister said she and her brother went on a shopping excursion the morning before he was shot.

They went out hunting for quality bedsheets, she recalled, stunned how fate turned a routine task into an indelible memory.

“I cherish those last hours I went shopping with him,” she said. “I didn’t know that was going to be the last.”

Grizzle, she said, was a family friend.

“They would go out in the sun for fresh air together,” she said. “[They] were friends, more like family from Jamaica.”

No one knows if the two were targeted or if they were bystanders caught in crossfire, Simpson’s sister said.

Detectives have speculated that the shooting was linked to tensions between Grizzle and a neighbor, a source with knowledge of the case said.

Grizzle lived just up the block from where he and Simpson were shot, the source said.

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