New York Daily News

Neighbors in shock after Qns. dad, 28, fatally shot in vestibule of his building

- BY WES PARNELL AND THOMAS TRACY

A 28-year-old father was fatally shot in the vestibule of his Queens apartment building early Tuesday, officials said.

Broderick Daniels was shot multiple times in the chest and torso in the entryway of his building on 184th St. near 104th Ave. in Hollis about 1 a.m., cops said.

“I heard the shots last night, I heard them down the block and then I heard them here,” said one neighbor who wished not to be named. “I knew someone was getting shot. When you grow up in the hood, you know the difference between fireworks and gunshots and someone was getting shot last night.”

EMS rushed Daniels to Jamaica Hospital, where he died.

Police were responding to an alert from the ShotSpotte­r system — an array of sensitive microphone­s placed throughout the city to pick up the sound of gunfire — when they found Daniels.

No arrests had been made.

The longtime neighbor, 56, said Daniels grew up in the building.

“I cried when it happened, I was shocked. It happens to the good people,” the neighbor said. “He was a good kid, had a son he was usually with. He was personable, always speaks with everyone.”

“You ain’t safe anywhere nowadays,” he said. “It’s a damn shame. You walk out your front door and it’s the last thing you do.

“All these bullets, they don’t have eyes, they don’t have names,” he said.

Another resident was startled to wake up and learn that someone was murdered at her front door.

“I left this morning, [but] I saw my neighbor couldn’t leave, the police were here, and then I saw the blood on the two parked cars,” she said. “I’m terrified. No one wants to wake up to a shooting . ... I’m blown away.”

Cops (photo) were scouring the area Tuesday for surveillan­ce footage that could help them identify the shooter.

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