Police want to talk to a man seen near the scene of a Harlem smoke shop where the victim was fatally shot in the neck last week, cops said Saturday.
Investigators on Friday were circulating surveillance images of a bearded man wanted for questioning for the Feb. 11 shooting at Level Up Exotics, a smoke shop with a “Super Mario Bros.” themed awning on W. 125th St. near Fifth Ave.
Victim Alfred Johnson, 42, was shot in the neck and chest inside the store at about 10 p.m. He ran to a nearby Shake Shack restaurant across the street, where he collapsed.
EMS rushed Johnson to Harlem Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.
“In this area, it’s not really surprising,” a worker at a dollar store down the block from the scene, who identified himself as Billy, told the Daily News. “Stuff like this has been happening. Happening almost every day.”
Police have made no arrests. A motive for the killing was not immediately disclosed.
The bloodshed came on the heels of a rash of shootings citywide during a frightening 15-hour span that saw 14 people wounded — three fatally. Five people were blasted in the Bronx, five in Brooklyn, and four in Queens in eight separate incidents between 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 and 5 a.m. the next morning.
Johnson lived in Washington Heights, about two miles from where he was shot.