Police are searching for a suspect after two young men where shot and killed near nightclubs in Astoria. Christinafantv reports.
It happened at around 10:30 p.m. Friday at Astoria Boulevard and Steinway Street, a block with several nightclubs and a mosque.
Police identified the men as 22-year-old Xavier Roberts and 21-year-old Jaheim Hamilton. They were shot in the torso and pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital, according to police. "So I was coming out of my apartment a couple blocks away, and I heard, must have been 20 shots in rapid succession," said witness Chris Luth.
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