The young man who fatally shot the Bronx in the head was an innocent bystander who visited along with a friend in a suburban Detroit, and his shell-shocked father told the Post Thursday.
The tragic murder of 28-year-old plumber apprentice Daoud Marji marked the first time in days that an innocent New Yorker was killed in random gun violence on the streets of the city on Wednesday evening.
“What am I going to do? He was my blood,” he said of sadness Saeed Marji from his house in Yonkers (he was my blood.”
The sad dad said he had heard that the area was bad and that Doud encouraged him not to travel to the Bronx.
However, Margi kept pushing and took him to University Avenue near West Kings Bridge Road just before 5pm. It’s the wrong place at the wrong time.
“Then I get a call from my Detroit number. ‘Doud, he’s shot,'” Sade said, reciting his call of destiny.
“I” is a strong man, but I’m shocked. I have to take care of my family. My wife, she’s very bad. ”
Pioneering Harlem Bodega owner and community fixture – Exenia Mette, 61, was fatally shot in the head on Tuesday when he went outside to check on his grandson.
Harlem’s shootings have spurred protests of sadness from communities, often grabbed by gun violence.
A day had passed before Marji was randomly shot, too. Another bystander in the Bronx shooting – a 33-year-old woman – was also shot in confusion, police said.
The shooting unfolded when shooters and shooters fired bullets in the crowd, law enforcement sources said.
Marji had immigrated to the US from Jordan as a child, his father said. He worked as an apprentice plumber.
Ray Cooley, a 56-year-old family friend, said Margi had no “bad bones that were bad for him.”
“He came from the Middle East when he was very young with his family, his hardworking family,” Cooley said.
“They have always helped the community, especially Dowd. That’s a huge loss for our community. He was very outgoing, very kind and very polite. Everyone was called an uncle or aunt.”
