Man charged in DoorDash killing

Shot while trying to boot car

A Queens man was hit with murder charges Thursday for fatally shooting a DoorDash delivery worker who fought back when the suspect tried to steal his bike, police said.

Douglas Young, 38, of Jamaica, was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on second-degree murder charges for the March 29 fatal shooting of 29-year-old Francisco Villalva Vitinio.

Young was arrested in Harlem around 1 a.m. Thursday when somebody recognized him from a wanted photo put out by the NYPD last week and called cops, authorities said.

Villalva was taking a break on a park bench in Poor Richard’s Playground near E. 108th St. and Third Ave. at 11:10 p.m. the night of the killing when Young approached him and tried to take his bike, the victim’s coworkers told the Daily News in the incident’s aftermath.

Villalva wouldn’t give up his ride — the source of his livelihood — and Young opened fire, cops said.

A gunman opened fire at a city marshal and a tow truck driver booting a car in Queens early Thursday, grazing the tow truck operator in the head, officials said.

The marshal, 63, was putting the boot on a 2007 Acura parked near Tioga Drive and Mexico St. in St. Albans when shots rang out about 12:50 a.m., cops said.

Rattled neighbors heard three gunshots. The gunman, who one resident said was clad in just his underwear, fired as he ran past the scene and then escaped on foot, police said.

A bullet grazed the 44-year-old tow truck driver in the head. Medics took the bleeding tow truck operator to an area hospital, where he was treated and released.

The marshal was uninjured in the shooting.

The car was being booted because its owner owed fines to the city Department of Finance, officials said.

The boot would have immobilized one of the Acura’s wheels and wouldn’t be released until the car’s owner paid his fines — but the shooting interrupted those plans and the boot was never put on the car, city officials said.

Cops are investigating if the shooting is linked to the car being booted.

“It is not clear at this time that there is a connection between the vehicle and the suspect,” said a spokeswoman for the city Department of Investigation, the agency that oversees city marshals.

The early-morning shooting is a rarity in St. Albans, where the worst crimes are car thefts, area residents said.

“It’s shocking to us because it’s mostly seniors that live around here,” said Kevin Brown, 38, who has lived in the neighborhood for about seven years. “It seems like it’s a one-off thing.”

Other neighbors said that more and more young men have been seen hanging out nearby working on their cars and sometimes racing on the block.