Police are looking for an ex-con who has been identified as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 55-year-old man outside a troubled Brooklyn apartment building 16 months ago, police said Wednesday.
Tyree Kirkland, 32, has been linked to the Dec. 27, 2021 killing of Ricardo Moore, who was found shot in the chest and head outside his building on Hegeman Ave. near Amboy St. in Brownsville, cops said.
Police on Wednesday released images of Kirkland, who is still at large, in the hopes someone knows his whereabouts.
Moore was found by responding officers mortally wounded outside his apartment building around 3:45 p.m. EMS rushed him to Brookdale Hospital, which is about a block from the shooting scene, but he couldn’t be saved, cops said.
It wasn’t immediately disclosed how detectives linked Moore’s killing to Kirkland.
The suspect was arrested for drug possession in 2018 and in 2019 was sentenced to a year in prison for attempted weapons possession, according to court records.
He was paroled seven months into his sentence, officials said. His parole ended in May 2021, about seven months before Moore’s murder.
The building where Moore was killed is known as a violent spot in which another fatal shooting took place two months before his death.
In that case, which took place on Oct. 28, 2021, police found reputed gang member Shawn Joseph riddled with bullets in the same building, hidden under the bed in one of the apartments, officials said.
Joseph, 30, described by police at the time as a Trey Crip gang member, was shot nine times in the chest.
Kirkland’s last known address was in Brownsville, about four blocks away from where Moore was killed.
Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.