Bx. man dies from shot months later
A Bronx man died more than two months after he was shot on the street, the latest in string of tragedies for the slain man’s family.
David Peart, 30, was shot in the upper body after being approached by a gunman on Tinton Ave. near E. 163rd St. in Morrisania about 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 15. Medics rushed Peart to Lincoln Hospital. He was later transferred to a long-term care facility, where he died Monday.
The gunman ran off and has not been caught.
Peart’s brother, Charles, is taking his death particularly hard, said his uncle, Phillip Peart, 55. Their mother died of cancer, their father of a stroke, and another brother succumbed to HIV, the uncle said.
“It’s a tragedy,” Philip Peart said of the shooting.
David Peart leaves his two young daughters, ages 6 and 2, his uncle said.
“He was a good kid,” he said of his nephew. “All kids have their ups and downs, but he was good.”
David Peart mostly kept to himself, but hardship found him over the past few years, his uncle said.
“Things happened to him ... He got into one altercation where he got stabbed, and then at his job something fell on his head and made him have seizures,” Phillip Peart recalled.
A neighbor, Dwayne Brown, was surprised to learn of David Peart’s death.
“I used to talk to him every day because I would always see him outside,” he said. “He had a fight a couple of months ago, and I was wondering where he was.”
Brown added, “I remember the shooting. That was him? I didn’t know he was involved in it. Oh man.”
On Oct. 29, police released surveillance video showing the shooter raising his gun. Additional footage shows the suspect, gun in hand, strolling down the sidewalk. He’s also seen inside a bodega, wearing a white hoodie with a Nike logo on the front and a black-and-red baseball cap.
Police described him as darkskinned, thin, bearded and between 20 and 30 years old.
Peart lived a few blocks away from where he was shot. The motive for the shooting remains unclear, though his uncle said he heard it stemmed from “an argument that went bad.”
“I hope that they get caught by the cops and turn themselves in so we can get some closure as to what happened and why,” Phillip Peart said. “Young people these days are so eager to pull the trigger.”