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Road rage suspected cause in shooting that also left one hurt by Michael Gannon Associate Editor
A traffic dispute appears to have sparked a shooting in a Kew Gardens park that left one man dead and another seriously wounded on July 14. Roberto Adanes, 25, of 84-50 Austin St. and another man who witnesses said was his brother, were shot at 8:10 p.m. after their car was in a near-collision with a white pick-up truck at the north end of Eight Oaks Triangle, or Max Wernik Triangle, on 84th Drive between Austin and 125th streets. Police said Adanes was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital. Police said Monday that the second man remans in stable condition. They are looking for two white males in their 40s. They have issued a sketch of the alleged shooter and are circulating a picture of a white commercial pickup truck, possibly with Connecticut license plates, that the suspects were driving. Witnesses said the shooter and his companion were laughing as they walked away from the park. Larisa Mataeva said she was out walking her dog at the time. She said after the near collision, the white pick-up pulled to a stop on 84th Drive, and that Adanes approached the truck and challenged the two occupants. The truck then pulled away and drove up 125th Street while the two victims walked to the eastern side of the triangle. She was on the eastern side of 125th Street when the two men from the truck walked back and opened fire. “I was afraid they might shoot me,” she said. “Then they walked away and started laughing.” She heard gunman threaten to shoot another man who approached them as he walked south on 125th toward the scene. “He said he’d shoot me too if I got too close,” said the man, an auto mechanic who would only give his name as Jose.
Roberto Adanes was shot to death last week on the sidewalk at Eight Oaks Triangle in Kew Gardens. Police believe the shooting may be the result of a road rage incident, and are seeking two men believed to have driven away from the area in a white pickup truck. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON
“I was working on some cars (on 125th Street) when I heard the shots,” Jose said. “I was afraid my daughter might be out so I told a guy to watch my tools...They were both laughing, like it was a big joke.” He said his cousin had been standing with the two victims when they were shot. Mian Shoukat, the superintendent in Adanes’s building, said Adanes and his siblings come from a good family. “He was never any trouble,” Shoukat said. “One time he had some friends over and it started to get too loud and I told him I
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didn’t want that. He said OK and everyone went outside.” Police at the 102nd Precinct said there was no further information to release on Friday afternoon. Maria Thomson, president of the Community Council in the 102nd Precinct, said she was surprised at a shooting in Kew Gardens. “No area in the precinct is bad,” she said. “But unfortunately, this is something that could have occurred anywhere. It was a bad situation and road rage. And unfortuQ nately, it resulted in a killing and a shooting.”
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Kew Gardens man killed in local park