A well-known Queens businessman, activist and youth football coach was shot and killed in broad daylight Wednesday while sitting in a car on a quiet street, police say.
Jerwaine Gorman, a 34-year-old father of three, was sitting with a passenger inside a 2011 Mercedes Benz on 167th Street in St. Albans at about noon when someone walked up to the car and fired one shot at him before running away, according to police. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital with a wound to the torso and was pronounced dead.
There have been no arrests.
Gorman spent his life trying to prevent the kind of gun violence that ended up killing him, his friends told NBC 4 New York Thursday.
"We've all been talking to each other for the last 24 hours, trying to make sense out of something that really doesn't add up," said longtime friend and fellow youth football coach Jacque Leandre.
Friends said Gorman helped keep hundreds of kids off the streets as a coach for the Rosedale Jets. The political activist also helped lead the southeast Queens County Young Democrats.
"He was much more than a football coach," said Leandre. "He was a mentor, he was a counselor, he was a leader, and as everyone knows, he was involved civically."
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Gorman had much more to give the community, he said.
"What's really shameful is that we will not know what a 44-year-old Coach Gorman would have been like, what a 54-year-old Coach Gorman could have done for this wonderful community," said Leandre.
A motive is still unknown. Police are still investigating.
