Overview
- Police identified the victim as Gregory Stewart, 38, who was found shot in the head around 9:05 p.m. Sunday inside a Sotomayor Houses stairwell in Soundview.
- EMS took Stewart to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
- A man was taken into custody for questioning, no charges have been filed, and investigators have not disclosed a motive.
- The killing ended a 12-day stretch with no recorded homicides citywide dating to Nov. 25, tying the longest span on record since a similar lull in 2015, according to NYPD data.
- Stewart lived in the Wakefield section of the Bronx, and the case remains under active investigation by the NYPD.