Posted on: April 14, 2026 06:30 AM

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Man killed in shooting outside church in Queens police searching for suspect

Police are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a man outside a church in Jamaica, Queens, on Friday.

It happened near a park outside a church at Merrick Boulevard and Sayres Avenue around 2:20 p.m.

The 49-year-old victim, identified by police as Richard Carter, was shot multiple times in the torso by a man who fled the scene on a CitiBike.

Witnesses say there was a funeral service just wrapping up, and about 25 people coming out of the church at the time of the shooting.

Eyewitness News spoke to a limo driver who was sitting in his vehicle two cars behind the hearse. He said he was waiting for family of the deceased to exit the church, and that's when gun shots went off.

His limo was parked only a couple of cars behind the hearse. The bullets were fired just as the funeral service wrapped up and crowds began exiting the church.