By Olivia Scheck and Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Staff
EAST HARLEM — A man was found shot to death on Madison Avenue near East 107th Street early Thursday morning, police said.
William Corbin, 25, was found unconscious with two gunshot wounds to the stomach shortly after 2 a.m. in front of the Lehman Village Houses, according to the NYPD.
Corbin was pronounced dead at St. Luke's Hospital, the department said.
He was killed less than a block from his home at 1590 Madison Avenue, according to the NYPD.
Investigators temporarily closed off Madison Avenue between East 107th and East 108th streets Thursday morning, while they took pictures of bloody clothes that remained in the street.
Students from nearby schools, including the Jackie Robinson and Assemblyman Angelo Del Toro Educational Complexes, were forced to walk around the block, but not before catching a glimpse of the crime scene.
The street was reopened shortly before 8 a.m.
"It's terrible — it's everyday," Lehman resident Steve Chirico, 39, said referring to crime in the neighborhood.
"They don’t have nowhere for these kids to go," Chirico, a youth basketball coordinator in the area, added.
Another neighbor, Anne Rossman, 56, who lives on Fifth Avenue and East 108th Street, said she heard the gunshots from her apartment.
She, like Chirico, complained that the neighborhood was plagued by drugs and violance, calling for increased police intervention.
"There are always drug dealers hanging out here. I don't know why it's allowed. The police allow it," said Rossman, who's lived in the area for 13 years.
An investigation into the shooting death is ongoing, police said.
