Man Shot In Park Slope Road Rage Fight Dies: NYPD

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A man died after being shot in the head during a road rage fight along a Park Street street, authorities said.

The shooter in the Friday afternoon incident remains on the loose and the investigation has shifted to a homicide probe, NYPD said. The victim — a 31-year-old man — died at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, police said.

It's Park Slope's first suspected murder in at least a year, according to police crime statistics.

The shooting unfolded on Sixth Avenue near Garfield Place at about 4:55 p.m., when many Park Slopers were out enjoying a warm, sunny late winter day. The man and the shooter apparently got in some sort of "traffic dispute," police said.

The dispute ended when the shooter shot the man in the head, authorities said.

Police found the wounded man sitting the driver's seat of a white 2019 Chevrolet Impala, authorities said. The shooter was nowhere to be found.

The broad daylight shooting stunned the neighborhood. Many residents took to social media to post videos and photos from the crime scene.

NYPD crimes statistics state Park Slope's 78th Precinct hasn't seen a murder since at least 2019. The last high-profile murder in the neighborhood happened in 2017, when Manos Ikonomidis, 20, was fatally stabbed in a threesome gone awry.