A veteran sanitation worker was gunned down just steps from his Brooklyn home yesterday morning as he prepared to drive to work, police said.
Edward Hunt, 32, had pulled his Chevrolet SUV out of a gated parking spot on Lincoln Place in Crown Heights around 5:30 a.m. When he got out to close the gate, a man approached and shot him twice in the chest, cops said.
He was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Investigators were at first looking at it as a robbery gone bad. But it did not appear that anything had been stolen, sources said.
Hunt’s mother, Ceteria Harris, a 58-year-old transit worker, said her son – the father of a 3-year-old girl – was “very hardworking and a good dad and an excellent son.”
She said she had been unable to tell his daughter Ayanna her father was dead.
“She loved her father. Everybody loved Eddie. He had such a very sunny disposition,” she said. “I don’t know what to say to her.”