Bay Shore shooting: Police ID man found dead in church parking lot
Suffolk County police investigate a fatal shooting on Holbrook Street in Bay Shore early Saturday morning. Credit: Paul Mazza
A man was found fatally shot in a church parking lot in Bay Shore early Saturday, Suffolk County police said.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired in a parking lot on Holbrook Street shortly before 1 a.m., police said. There, they discovered Linver Ortiz-Ponce, 29, who had been shot.
Ortiz-Ponce, of Ronkonkoma, was declared dead at the scene.
Police ask anyone with information about the shooting to call the homicide squad at 631-852-6392 or call Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS.
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