Police are searching for the gunman they say fatally shot Stefon Barnes over the weekend.
NEW YORK -- Police have released surveillance images of a suspect they're looking for in connection to a deadly shooting of an innocent bystander in a Bronx deli.CBS New York spoke to the victim's heartbroken family by phone on Tuesday.'Trying to process this whole thing,' Martin Barnes said.The father of 29-year-old Stefon Barnes said he is grappling with the senseless loss of his son.'He loved his family. He loved to sing. He loved to dance. He liked to make friends.
'There's a lot of guns out there and that's what really hurts,' said the Rev. Oswald Denis of Rehoboth Christian Church.Religious leaders prayed with the community at a memorial of flowers candles and cards, calling for the end to the violence.'No need to pull out guns. No need to pull out knives. Let's talk it out,' Denis said.CBS New York spoke to regulars at the deli. One man said he left just a short while before the shots were fired.
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