Updated 5:15 p.m.
A 24-year-old man is dead after he was shot in Jamaica Monday night in a dispute over a parking space police and reports said.
The victim, Darrell Lynch, of Jamaica, was found with a gunshot wound to his left leg on 113th Avenue near Sutphin Boulevard about 7:30 p.m., cops said. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
That evening, Lynch had allegedly gotten into an argument with another man over a parking spot, and when he walking to his car, the man approached Lynch and shot at him, according to New York Daily News.
His mother, who was with her son, then picked up Lynch’s gun, which her son had pulled out and had dropped, and began shooting at the suspect, who then fled, the Daily News said.
There are no arrests at this time and the investigation is ongoing, according to police.
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