A 57-year-old man with a walker was fatally shot in the head — and an innocent 34-year-old woman wounded — when gunfire erupted near Fordham University on Sunday, cops and sources said.
Kevin Jennings was gunned down when a man opened fire at East 188th Street and Marion Avenue in Fordham Heights, a few blocks from the school, around 6:50 p.m., police said.
A woman walking nearby was also blasted in the leg, cops said.
Investigators are still probing whether Jennings, who lived in the borough but about 3 miles away, was targeted or simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, sources said. The woman was an innocent bystander, cops and sources said.
Both were rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Jennings succumbed to his injuries and the woman was listed in stable condition.
The gunman, last seen wearing a black t-shirt and red pants, fled the scene, cops said.
At least three other innocent bystanders have been shot in the Big Apple in the past month — all of them fatally.
In late April, a trailblazing Harlem bodega owner and community fixture — Excenia Mette, 61 — was fatally shot in the head when she ran outside to check on her grandson as bullets flew.
Barely a day had passed when Daoud Marji, a 28-year-old plumber’s apprentice, was killed in The Bronx in another stray-bullet shooting.
And just last week, Evette Jeffrey, 16, was fatally struck by a stray round in a Bronx school yard as a feud between rival gangs escalated, cops said.
Two teens have been taken into custody in that shooting – the 14-year-old alleged shooter and a 13-year-old boy accused of handing him the gun, cops and sources said.
The younger teen was just picked up by authorities Monday, sources said.
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