A 23-year-old Queens man was shot to death during a clash at his home, police said Saturday.
It was the second fatal shooting in the bucolic section of Queens protected by cops from the 115th Precinct this week, officials said.
Cops were called to victim Jean Pierre Rengifo-Arteaga’s home on 96th St. near 34th Ave. in North Corona about 7:20 p.m. Friday on a report of an assault in progress at the two-family home.
When they arrived, they found the victim outside the place, shot in the head, right forearm and stomach, cops said.
The gunman responsible for the slaying had run off.
EMS rushed Rengifo-Arteaga to Elmhurst Hospital but he couldn’t be saved.
Police did not disclose a motive for the shooting.
No arrests have been made. Cops were scouring the area for surveillance footage that may help them identify the shooter.
On Wednesday, Carlos Solano, 43, was shot and killed during an argument with another man on Humphreys St. and 25th Ave. in East Elmhurst, less than a mile from where Rengifo-Arteaga was killed.
Solano was also fatally shot in the head, cops said. The incident is being investigated as a domestic dispute.
The afternoon shooting erupted just hours before Solano
was to accompany his mother, Enerolisa Castro, 65, to see the Tribute in Light commemoration that fills the Lower Manhattan sky with blue beams at dusk every Sept. 11.
On Thursday, Castro told the Daily News the already sad anniversary has now become unbearable.
“Yesterday he called me and he said, ‘Mom, I’m gonna go out with you tonight,’” she said a day after the shooting.
Castro, a nurse, recounted they also planned to go out to dinner after seeing the awe-inspiring lights. “I said, ‘OK, I’ll be ready by 5,’” she recalled.
But her son never came to pick her up. Instead, she got a call from police saying Solano had been shot a half hour before they were scheduled to meet.
“Why would you take somebody that is so special to me?” Castro — who lost three co-workers, also nurses, on 9/11 — said of the killer. “Why did you take my diamond? My diamond in my life. I feel destroyed. I still cannot accept that he’s dead. 9/11 now, for me — it’s forever.”
The two killings had not been linked by Saturday. The bloody week brought the 115th Precinct’s homicide count to four, double what the precinct investigated last year, cops said.
Anyone with information regarding either homicide is urged to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.