Gun violence

Man, 47, shot and killed inside Rockaway Avenue subway station

Neighbors remembered 47-year-old Freddie Weston as a very nice and hard-working man.

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New York City police are searching for a murder suspect after a 47-year-old man was killed inside a Brooklyn subway station.

The victim, Freddie Weston of Brownsville, was found around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday with a gunshot wound to his head near the booth area of Rockaway Avenue A/C line, according to investigators. Law enforcement sources said the MTA worker inside the booth heard a loud noise and ran out to find a man shot in the head on the mezzanine, then immediately called for help.

Weston was rushed to Brookdale Hospital Police but his injuries were too severe.

Law enforcement sources said they were still trying to put the pieces of the deadly puzzle together on Thursday.

Weston lived just blocks away from the subway station. He recently started a new job at a supermarket in Queens, neighbors told NBC New York. Weston may have been on his way to work at the store at the time he was killed, according to his girlfriend who spoke to News 4.

NYPD officers were seen guarding the street-level entrances and canvassing nearby businesses for surveillance video of a suspect.

Investigators have not released further information about the shocking crime.

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