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Man Fatally Shot in the Head in Flushing, NYPD Says

By  Trevor Kapp and Aidan Gardiner | July 28, 2016 8:41am 

 He was gunned down near 35th Avenue and Farrington Street, police said.
He was gunned down near 35th Avenue and Farrington Street, police said.
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FLUSHING — A man was fatally shot in the head in Queens on Wednesday night, police said.

Richard Brown, 50, was engaging in some sort of illegal business with another man who then gunned him down near 35th Avenue and Farrington Street just minutes before midnight, NYPD officials said.

Brown, of Hemptstead, was pronounced dead at New York-Presbyterian Queens, police said.

The gunman fled the scene on a black motorcycle and hadn't been arrested as of Thursday morning, police said.