Crime & Safety
Funeral Set for Man Shot in New Rochelle Saturday
Police do not believe he was the intended target of the shooting.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Services have been scheduled for the 79-year-old man who was shot and killed Saturday while sitting outside a bodega.
Visitation for Manuel Ayala-Oceguera will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at New Rochelle Funeral Home, 104 Fourth St., with a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Friday, according to the Journal News.
Officers were called to 238 Union Ave. around 11:15 p.m. and found Ayala-Oceguera with a gunshot wound to his chest.
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He was taken to Jacobi Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to News 12, police said he was not believed to be the intended target.
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