A 22-year-old contractor is clinging to life after he was repeatedly shot during a robbery of his gold chain at a Brooklyn job site Monday, police sources and the company he works for said.
Amandeep Singh initially fought the robber off before he was blasted multiple times in the chest at around 10:50 a.m.outside an East New York home on Shepherd Avenue near Atlantic Avenue where he had done brick work, sources said.
The gunman, believed to be in his 30s, then fled the scene of the crime in a creme Ford Explorer, according to sources.
“Someone tried to rob the gold chain he was wearing and he just got shot,” said his stunned uncle Ranjit Singh, who owns NYC Crystal Builders Corp. “We don’t know what’s going on.”
Singh worked for his uncle’s company for the past five years.
The shooter yelled, “Give it up, give it up!” before he shot Singh, according to witness Mike Steward, 48, who rushed to Singh’s aid.
The gunman also tried to snatch Singh’s green bookbag, witnesses said.
“I went up to him and put my hands over his wounds,” said Steward. “I saw three wounds and I kept seeing blood, his shirt was soaked then I realized there was another bullet hole in his back.”
Steward added, “He started foaming at the mouth…He was hemorrhaging faster than I could find the bullet holes.”
Elicia Alcocks, who works at a nearby daycare on Shepherd Avenue, also ran to Singh’s side after she heard the gunshots.
“I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “I just started doing CPR.”
Emergency responders rushed Singh to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition, according to officials.
Witness Dave Simmons, 30, suspect the robbery was as a “set up.”
Police recovered four shell casings at the scene.