The NYPD on Monday is investigating two fatal Easter shootings — a 42-year-old father of two in Queens, and a 19-year-old in the Bronx.
In the slaying in Astoria, Sean Overton was shot dead just after 5 p.m. Sunday outside the Astoria Houses, at 2-10 Astoria Blvd.
Cops said the victim was found lying on his back after taking took bullets to the neck and torso.
The Daily News reports witnesses saw a gunman dressed all in black — and wearing pink shoes. Overton was pronounced dead on arrival at Astoria General Hospital.
He had two kids — one was 2, the other 4.
In the other Easter Sunday shooting death, Jose Velasquez, 19, of the South Bronx, was gunned down at 3:30 a.m. He was found with bullet wounds to his neck and torso at the intersection of Walton and Burnside avenues. He was pronounced DOA at St. Barnabas Hospital.
Velasquez, of Leggett Avenue, had a criminal history, officials told the Daily News . He was killed in front of a closed beauty supply store, and the suspect fired eight rounds, the paper said.
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