Cops release images of suspect in deadly NYC migrant shelter shooting that may have links to Tren de Aragua gang

Surveillance video shows a suspected gunman in the deadly, potentially Tren de Aragua gang-linked shooting Sunday outside a Brooklyn migrant shelter.

The cellphone-toting man seen in footage released by the NYPD late Monday is the shooter who hopped off a moped outside 29 Ryerson St. and popped off shots, police said.

“They shot from the bike and kept going,” a migrant who witnessed the late Sunday shooting told The Post.

Police released surveillance footage showing a suspected shooter in deadly gunfire outside a Brooklyn migrant shelter. DCPI

The migrant shelter shooting is being investigated as a potential gang war. Wayne Carrington

The shooting is connected to nearby gunplay that evening in Steuben Park that left a homeless man dead, cops said.

Both bullet-ridden, bloody crimes are being investigated as a potential bloody turf war between the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and former members battling over control of drugs and prostitution, law enforcement sources told The Post.

“We are still investigating if this was connected to a gang,” Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday, when asked by The Post. 

“That is still unclear at this moment, but we are on top of it. We’re not going to allow a gang to take a foothold here.”

The late Sunday shooting out the Ryerson Street left Enny DeJesus Urbina Mendez — a 21-year-old Venezuelan national — dead and left an as-yet-unidentified 59-year-old man clinging to life with a gunshot to his head, cops said.

Arturo Jose Rodriguez-Marcano, a 30-year-old homeless man, died in the nearby Steuben Park shooting. 

A 21-year-old migrant was dead following a Sunday night shooting at a Brooklyn migrant shelter by two masked men on a scooter. acquired by NYPost

Police identified Mendez and Rodriguez-Marcano as the victims late Monday.

The suspected gang war boiled over about 11 p.m. Sunday, as a blue sedan trailed by two men on a scooter stalked the streets near Brooklyn Navy Yard, sources said.

A man stopped the blue sedan outside Steuben Park near Flushing and Steuben streets, jumped out and unleashed gunfire that killed Rodriguez-Marcano, sources said.

About five minutes later, the sedan drove past 29 Ryerson St., while the two men on the scooter stopped, according to sources. A man hopped off the scooter’s back, opened fire then jumped back onto the moped.

“They shot from the bike and kept going,” a migrant who witnessed the late Sunday shooting told The Post.

The scooter’s escape was brief.

Video shared on Instagram shows an injured moped driver who is suspected to have driven the scooter in the migrant shelter shooting. Loudlabs

Video shared on Instagram shows the aftermath of a crash at Park Avenue and Taaffe Place, where the scooter and a car collided. The scooter’s driver was injured and arrested, while his passenger — the suspected shooter — ran off and remains in the wind, along with the sedan gunman, sources said.

Locals in Clinton Hill have been up in arms over migrant shelters, including the one on Ryerson Street, in the normally sleepy neighborhood. A protest over the shootings was planned for Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy and Desheania Andrews

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