A younger Brooklyn dad was gunned down Saturday night time whereas on his technique to choose up his 9-year-old daughter at an area magnificence parlor — and his killer remains to be on the unfastened.
Jahshyim Whitfield, 27, was headed to choose up the lady in Clinton Hill shortly earlier than 9:30 p.m. when he was shot within the torso and left mortally wounded on the sidewalk, police and kinfolk mentioned.
The daddy of two was rushed to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.
“My firstborn is gone. My son is gone,” the useless man’s grandmother, Evelyn Whitefield, informed The Submit Sunday. “He don’t name me grandma, he referred to as me ‘Ma.’ He would fairly come to my home than his personal mom’s home. He appreciated grandma’s cooking.”
Family mentioned Whitfield, who labored as a safety guard, doted over his two women — Ariana, 9, and Kay Lani, 4 — and was on his technique to choose up his older daughter on the magnificence parlor when he was shot.
“He was an ideal father. That’s what he cared about, his household,” a girl figuring out herself as Whitfield’s aunt informed The Submit Sunday. “He was a faithful father and whereas they took him, his daughter was spending his complete summer time with him.
“Her life goes to be completely different perpetually,” she mentioned of Ariana.
An NYPD spokesperson mentioned the capturing is beneath investigation, and cops haven’t revealed a potential motive for the deadly encounter — nor have they nabbed they nabbed the wrongdoer.
