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It hurts more to learn that this is someone you know.
He was just a block away from his stop and he was shot in the back.
Damion Reid for New York Daily News
Scene on Archer Ave., Jamaica, this evening where a gunman opened fire aboard a bus, killing one and wounding another, a short time after shooting a teenager in the neck at an apartment building some distance away.
A lunatic ex-con turned an afternoon bus commute in Queens into a bloodbath Friday, executing a commuter in cold-blood and shooting a second in the jaw — minutes after killing his girlfriend’s teenage son.
Fueled by dangerous paranoia following his release from prison, Damel Burton, 34, carried out a psychotic 15-minute spree that left two people dead and sent terrified passengers stampeding off a Q111 bus, police sources said.
The madman told cops he believed the commuters were plotting against him.
“People on the bus were on the phone and he thought they were talking about him,
He was just a block away from his stop and he was shot in the back.
Damion Reid for New York Daily News
Scene on Archer Ave., Jamaica, this evening where a gunman opened fire aboard a bus, killing one and wounding another, a short time after shooting a teenager in the neck at an apartment building some distance away.
A lunatic ex-con turned an afternoon bus commute in Queens into a bloodbath Friday, executing a commuter in cold-blood and shooting a second in the jaw — minutes after killing his girlfriend’s teenage son.
Fueled by dangerous paranoia following his release from prison, Damel Burton, 34, carried out a psychotic 15-minute spree that left two people dead and sent terrified passengers stampeding off a Q111 bus, police sources said.
The madman told cops he believed the commuters were plotting against him.
“People on the bus were on the phone and he thought they were talking about him,