The older victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he is listed in critical condition.
Police believe there was one shooter, who remained at large later Friday morning.
The hotel, across from Queens Borough Hall, briefly served as a city-run emergency shelter for homeless families after its initial opening, The Queens Chronicle reported. They should shut it down, area resident Richard Rogers, 52, told the Post. There is too much going on there. There have been shootings, domestic fights….. And, the court is across the street! If they don’t shut it down, it’s going to continue to cause serious problems for the neighborhood, he added. Being I’ve heard of other incidents there, I’m not surprised this happened. It was just a matter of time before someone got killed. This person barely lived to see 2021.
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Queens hotel registers first NYC homicide of 2021
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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One man is dead and two others injured at hotel on Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens.
New York - One man was shot dead and two others were wounded at a Queens hotel early Friday, marking New York City s first reported homicide of 2021, police said.
Police responded to a 911 call just after 1 a.m. and found the victims outside the Umbrella Hotel in Kew Gardens. Two 20-year-old men and one 40-year-old man were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds, police said.
One of the 20-year-olds was pronounced dead. His name was not immediately released. The 40-year-old victim was in critical condition and the second 20-year-old was in stable condition, police said. Police have made no arrests.
NYC records its first homicide of 2021 as one person is killed and two injured in shooting at a Queens hotel just ONE HOUR after the ball dropped in Time s Square - after 2020 marked the bloodiest year since 2011 with 447 murders
The triple shooting took place outside the Umbrella Hotel on Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens just after 1 a.m. Friday
One man, 20, was shot in the body and was pronounced dead in hospital
Another 20-year-old male and a 40-year-old male were also shot
They are in Queens General Hospital in non-critical conditions
An NYPD spokesperson told DailyMail.com there had been a dispute between the victims and a group of people before the shooting