New York Daily News

‘Was a good guy,’ kin say of Qns. vic

- BY MORGAN CHITTUM AND JOHN ANNESE With Rocco Parascando­la

Devastated loved ones set up a small memorial Monday at the spot where a Queens man was fatally shot in his Jeep.

A dozen blue, red and white prayer candles were placed alongside several white roses (photo) on Linden Blvd. at 200th St. in St. Albans, where 37-year-old Tyrone Jones was killed Sunday afternoon.

“He loved music. He loved his people. He was a good guy. That’s it,” said one relative, weeping as she and a man paid their respects at the memorial.

Jones’ friends and family also took to social media to mourn his death.

“I was hurt when I heard the news and still hurting now. The pain I’m feeling is unbearable and unrealisti­c,” cousin Michael Jones said in a Facebook post Sunday night. The two trusted each other with everything, he wrote.

“[He] was more like my little brother growing up with him since he was a lil rugrat,” Michael Jones wrote.

Police were still looking for the gunman Monday, and were trying to determine if the shooting was drug-related, cop sources said.

The shooting also left Dennis Reid, who co-owns Golden Krust, a Caribbean restaurant just feet from the crime scene, rattled.

Reid, 60, said an employee called him Sunday to let him know what had happened.

“I told her it was best if she closed the store,” he said. “She said there was a shooting outside and that police were all over the block investigat­ing. I asked her if any customers were inside . ... I told her the best thing you can do is to leave and go home.”

Reid said he feels uneasy knowing the gruesome slaying happened right outside of his restaurant.

“It could’ve happened in here,” he said. “Thank goodness there wasn’t a stray bullet.”

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