A Venezuelan migrant was shot dead and two others wounded in a drive-by shooting near a Randall’s Island shelter early Monday morning — apparent payback for an earlier robbery, sources said.
The victims were boozing it up celebrating the re-election of controversial Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro around 3:30 am. when the shots rang out, law enforcement sources said.
One of the victims, a 44-year-old woman, was killed after being hit in the face and back by the gunmen, police said.
The others — a 32-year-old man shot in the throat and a 31-year-old woman hit in the back — were taken to Harlem Hospital and were listed in stable condition, police said.
No arrests had been made early Monday. The NYPD reportedly is looking for at least two suspects, one of whom is believed to have fled on a moped with New Mexico license plates, ABC7 reported.
Sources told The Post that the shooting stemmed from an earlier robbery, but details of that incident remain unclear.
The migrant tent shelter at the Manhattan site has been the subject of controversy in the past, including outbursts of violence.
Last month a brawl broke out between feuding migrant groups at the site, leading to several arrests.
In April, five men were charged with assault for their part in a rowdy fight that left one asylum seeker suffering a stab wound and four intervening security guards injured.
In January, a migrant housed at the facility was stabbed to death in a dispute over a woman, leading to three arrests, police said.
The tent city was erected to accommodate the thousands of migrants flocking into the Big Apple from the US border with Mexico, stretching the city’s shelter capacity to the breaking point.
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