Min­utes af­ter Akeem Greene stopped his car in La Ro­main, a gun­man ap­proached and opened fire, killing him in­stant­ly.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are work­ing to de­ter­mine the mo­tive for the at­tack and why Greene ex­it­ed his ve­hi­cle at the cor­ner of Ethel Street and By­ron Street on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice said around 10.15 pm, they re­ceived re­ports that a man was ly­ing dead. Of­fi­cers ar­rived at the scene five min­utes lat­er and found Greene’s body on the west­ern side of the road­way. He was shot sev­er­al times.

Of­fi­cers vis­it­ed Greene’s broth­er, Loren­zo, at his La Ro­main house. The broth­er said around 9.45 pm, a Pleas­antville man came to his house dri­ving a sil­ver Maz­da 6, which be­longed to the vic­tim. The man hand­ed Loren­zo the car keys and left.

Po­lice lat­er found out that Greene was with the Pleas­antville man and they were dri­ving along Ethel Street when Greene stopped and came out of the car.

An un­known man re­port­ed­ly ap­proached Greene and be­gan fir­ing. The Pleas­antville man said he drove the ve­hi­cle to Loren­zo’s home.

Po­lice re­trieved a spent 9mm shell and a live 9mm round, both marked “Luger,” as well as fin­ger­print im­pres­sions from the shat­tered car door glass. A post-mortem is sched­uled at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

Ag In­sp Ram­saran is lead­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.