By Leela de Kretser
DNAinfo Senior Editor
HARLEM — A 22-year-old man was shot in the head and died Tuesday just steps away from Lenox Terrace, the apartment complex where the governor keeps his Manhattan home.
Police, responding to a 911 call, discovered the victim — identified as Kwame Dancey — sprawled on the sidewalk in front of 50 W. 132nd Street. He was pronounced dead minutes later at Harlem Hospital, police said.
His mother, who lived with Dancey in a building next to where he was shot, was standing over her son's body crying when police arrived, a witness said.
Police and a helicopter scoured the neighborhood for hours after the shooting after a witness reported an unknown man speeding off in a car towards the nearby FDR Drive entrance, a police officer at the scene told DNAinfo.
There were no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
The shooting was the latest in a spate of violence that has plagued Central Harlem, in particular the blocks immediately east and west of Lenox Avenue.
The shooting of two women last month prompted police to install an observation tower at the corner of 131st and Lenox.
Some of the city's most prominent politicians have called the Lenox Terrace home, including Gov. David Paterson, his father Basil and former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton.
Congressman Charles Rangel was recently embroiled in a scandal involving the apartment complex when it was revealed he maintained four rent stabilized apartments there.
