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Police Still Trying to Find Motive Behind Polo Grounds Shooting: NYPD

By Trevor Kapp | July 1, 2015 4:27pm
 Jordan Barber was killed outside the Polo Grounds Houses, the NYPD said.
Jordan Barber was killed outside the Polo Grounds Houses, the NYPD said.
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HARLEM — Investigators of the fatal shooting of an aspiring chef in the Polo Grounds Houses Monday night believe the gunman may be from the St. Nicholas Houses, the NYPD said Wednesday.

Jordan Barber, 18, was standing with two pals outside of 2931 Frederick Douglass Blvd. about 10:45 p.m. when a group of 30 people approached, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.

“We have one shooter in this crowd,” Boyce said. “This group came up and quite a few people put their hoods up, and one of the individuals shot into the crowd.”

Barber told his mother “I love you,” after he was wounded in the neck, distraught relatives said.

“He was on the ground. Blood was coming out of his mouth,” Barber’s mom, Lashanda Holman, 34, said. “I was telling him to hang on. I knew my baby was dead.”

Barber’s two friends were also wounded, but were expected to survive, police said.

Boyce said Barber and the two other victims were a part of local hip-hop club “Fast Money Family,” but stressed it wasn’t a gang.

“This appears to be a hip-hop crew that’s into singing up there,” Boyce said. “Jordan Barber is a good kid by what everybody says.” 

Barber’s relatives said Wednesday they were still trying to make funeral arrangements.