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Red Hook man shot dead in front of his apartment building

Police are searching for a gunman who fatally wounded a Red Hook man outside his home on Tuesday night.

The criminal shot 23-year-old Jaheim Smallwood several times in front of his Red Hook Houses apartment on Bush Street between Columbia and Hicks streets at 8:17 pm, authorities said.

Emergency responders raced Smallwood to Methodist Hospital, where he died the next day, a police report states.

Cops have not made any arrests and the investigation is ongoing, according to authorities.

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