NO ONE IS SAFE
Dad killed in broad daylight as he walks with girl, 7, among vics of weekend slaughter
Shocking video shows the moment a man was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in the Bronx Sunday — while he was holding hands and crossing the street with his pigtailed little daughter.
Anthony Robinson, 28, had traveled from Brooklyn with his 7-year-old daughter, Khloe, to spend the holiday weekend in the Bronx, where Khloe’s mom lives and shares custody of the little girl with Robinson.
The unsuspecting pair was holding hands and strolling along E. 170th St. shortly before 6 p.m. when a dark sedan rolled up slowly, and a passenger leaned out and started shooting as the dad and daughter crossed Sheridan Ave. in Mount Eden.
Video shows Robinson, shot in the chest, falling to the ground, as little Khloe lets go of her daddy’s hand and dashes down the street to safety.
Cops said the gunman in the car squeezed off four shots. Miraculously, none of them hit the little girl, or anyone else.
The bloodshed was part of a holiday weekend of violence more typically associated with the crack epidemic years of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
On Sunday alone, 48 people were shot, nine fatally, in 30 different incidents around the city.
On Friday and Saturday, 15 people were shot, one fatally, in 14 incidents. Another person was stabbed to death on
Friday.
The victim in the caughton-camera drive-by writhed in pain on the ground before he stopped moving, the disturbing video shows.
Medics rushed Robinson to Bronx Care Health System, the former Bronx Lebanon Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.
Robinson was murdered just three blocks from where two other men were fatally shot two hours later, police said Monday. It was not immediately clear if the shootings were connected.
NYPD Assistant Chief Jason Wilcox called the shooting “a very, very cruel crime.”
“Obviously, Mr. Robinson isn’t the only victim of that crime,” Wilcox said. “That young girl is the victim of that crime. That community is also the victim of that crime.”
Wilcox said the NYPD is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
Relatives described
Robinson as a family man who spent much of his childhood in the South, away from the violence in East New York, where he lived, and the Bronx, where he died.
“Definitely a family man,” said Robinson’s cousin Michael Parker, 39. “He was born in New York, but he was a country guy. He loved trucks, cutting down trees. Mostly, he was down there more than he was in New York City.”
“I see him walking with his daughter,” said Charlie, a neighbor. “So much love. He had a nice spirit. Very respectful. I respect him. I know him now for about a year. My heart is broken.”
Robinson was also dad to a 2-year-old son and a daughter who was born in Florida just after Father’s Day, Parker said.
“He never got to touch her,” Parker said. “He never got to see her.”
Another neighbor, Michelle Virgo, said Khloe used to lift Robinson’s spirits.
“He says when he gets depressed he gets her because he wants to hear her say ‘Daddy, Daddy,’ ” Virgo recalled. “He said, ‘This is all I need.’ I’m so shaken up.”
Virgo said Robinson was a caretaker in the building where they lived. She said she remembered going to pick up a package recently and seeing Robinson helping Khloe with schoolwork.
“Now his kids don’t have a father,” she said. “Oh my God, it’s so sad. That little girl, she’s going to be traumatized. She was so hung up on Daddy. She’s a Daddy’s girl.”