Family of fatal Queen shooting victim urged him to leave New York

The household of a mechanic gunned down extracurricular his Queens location had urged him to permission New York similar they had, the victim’s sister told the Daily News Monday.

Sherman Walker, 51, was changeable successful the neck, abdomen and near limb extracurricular his basement flat adjacent Murdock Ave. and 204th St. successful St. Albans astir 6 p.m. Saturday, cops said.

“We moved retired of New York but helium stayed backmost — adjacent though we tried to inquire him to get retired of there,” the victim’s sister Tamara Walker said. “I conscionable privation sometimes helium did perceive due to the fact that past possibly helium would beryllium alive.”

Police person made nary arrests successful the lawsuit and an NYPD spokesperson had nary info connected motive Monday.

“We’re trying to fig it out,” his 45-year-old sister said. “Because adjacent though my member has a bosom of golden helium besides stood up for himself…. He’s the type, if you started thing he’s gonna fto you cognize I’m not lasting for it.”

His shooting came aft the metropolis saw a 5% drop successful large crime successful 2024, and astir 3% less homicides than the anterior year.

The Walker household grew up successful Kingston, Jamaica, and came to New York respective years ago. Walker’s relatives yet settled successful different states, leaving lone him successful New York.

“He went to schoolhouse to go a mechanic,” Tamara Walker, 45, said. “He had his mechanic’s degree. He works connected cars. So we told him, ‘Move retired of New York and spot if you tin amended your career.'”

“New York was getting a small rough,” she added. “Things was changing, a batch of crime.”

Brother and sister remained adjacent contempt surviving hundreds of miles apart.

“We were inactive connected,” said Tamara . “He’s not a nobody. He has a family, ma and dad, sisters and brothers. And my member was precise loving.”

“He had a pugnacious skin,” she added. “Like if you attack me, he’s not gonna run. He volition combat if helium has to. But helium besides learned to locomotion away.”

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A excavation of humor successful the thoroughfare aft Sherman Walker was gunned down adjacent Murdock Ave. successful Queens connected Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)

He was precocious injured successful a car clang but was doing freelance mechanic enactment to marque ends conscionable portion redeeming up to bargain a van and commencement his ain mobile mechanic business, his sister said.

“He had things successful the works due to the fact that he’s precise inspired,” his sister said. “He’s an inspiration, inspirational person. That was his plan. Then that was each shattered and gone. He didn’t merit that.”

Walker was daring arsenic a child, climbing immoderate helium could, and grew up to beryllium a protector and a jokester, his sister said.

“No 1 is perfect. We each person our ups and downs but increasing up, my member was ever looking retired for us, particularly me,” she said. “Being the youngest, helium was ever the protector implicit maine … Always asking maine if I’m okay. You know, sometimes it’s a small overbearing, but yeah, that’s him.”

Though constabulary sources said helium has a solitary apprehension for a menacing incidental successful 2019, Walker stayed retired of occupation and leaves down a 14-year-old son, his sister said. The lad lives with his parent retired of state.

“His lad looks conscionable similar him. I spoke to him yesterday. He kept saying helium wants to spell to New York and find retired who did this to his dad. He wants his dada back,” she said. “He’s devastated due to the fact that helium can’t judge his dada is gone. They person a large relationship. He was ever encouraging his child.”

Walker was besides adjacent to his mother, who’s taking his decease hard, the sister said.

“She’s conscionable crying,” Tamara said. “We’re each conscionable being astir her, conscionable watching implicit her, giving her her humor unit medicines to assistance to support her calm and to marque definite her wellness is okay.

Tamara Walker said she hopes a witnesser to the shooting comes guardant “because my member needs justice.”

“Whoever did this, they person nary conscience,” she said. “Obviously they person nary heart. They took distant a brother, a father, a son, an uncle, a friend.”

Because of the fig of times helium was shot., she believes her member was the killer’s intended target.

“That was personal,” she said. “That wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I got caught successful crossfire.’ That was decidedly personal.”

With Rebecca White and Elizabeth Keogh