One of the two Bronx vendors wounded in last week’s shooting near Yankee Stadium has died, cops said.
Clarence Pearson, 41, died Saturday at Lincoln Hospital after being shot multiple times in the torso during the Aug. 23 incident.
Horace Coleman, 52, a water hawker dressed in a dark suit – opened fire shortly after 1:30 p.m. near the corner of 161st Street and Gerard Avenue, hitting both Pearson and neighboring newspaper vendor Douglas Watkins, 60, authorities said.
Witnesses said Coleman and Watkins had been involved in an ongoing ‘turf war’ over their vendor spots, likely sparking Coleman’s irrational shooting spree.
Pearson’s neighbor Aloma Kemp, 69, said his mother was “absolutely devastated.”
“She just told me today that he died; I couldn’t believe it,” Kemp said.
“He was a great man. He was trying to make it out there – he had started his own little business washing cars. He was just a really great guy,” said Kemp.