A man was shot and killed on Staten Island early on Wednesday in the borough’s first reported fatal shooting so far this year, according to the NYPD.
Police officials said 28-year-old Arlington resident Shamel Massie was struck by gunfire in his head and arm around 5 a.m. on Roxbury Street near NYCHA’s Mariners Harbor Houses. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another 28-year-old man was also shot in the arm and was taken to Richmond University Medical Center in stable condition, police said.
The NYPD had no immediate description of a suspect and made no arrests as they continued to investigate. Massie was listed as living on the other side of the 20-plus-building Mariners Harbor Houses from the location of the shooting.
Shootings have declined substantially on Staten Island so far this year, with nine incidents reported in 2024, compared to 18 by this time in 2023, according to police data. Murders in the borough have also dropped significantly: Two have been reported so far this year, compared to 14 in the same period last year.
Arlington was the scene of another deadly shooting in 2020, when a man and his girlfriend were killed and another woman was injured in a home on Grandview Avenue, according to news reports. Just a handful of shootings have happened in the neighborhood since, according to Gothamist’s map of gun violence across New York City, which is based on NYPD data from 2020 through last month.
This is a developing story based on preliminary information from the NYPD and may be updated.