A house party in Brooklyn, New York, was interrupted early Monday by two masked men firing gunshots. The owner of the home died on the spot following which the men robbed more than a dozen people partying in the house.

The victim, identified as 48-year-old Kenny Mark, was shot dead in his apartment building on Pulaski St. near Nostrand Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

According to the police, around 2 a.m., Mark heard a knock on the door. He opened the door to find two gunmen, wearing ski masks and dressed in dark clothing. One of them pulled Mark out of the apartment and forced him to sit down. He was shot in the abdomen when he tried fighting the gunman.

Meanwhile, the other gunman barged inside the house to confront a crowd using a pool table to play dice. The gunman then snatched money off the pool table before robbing approximately 15 people in the house. The suspects immediately got away from the scene.

Mark was immediately rushed to the Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A witness told local media that, “I thought they were people he lived with. By the time I started paying attention they were carrying him out on a stretcher to an ambulance.”

Mark had inherited the building from his mother and had rented out a few rooms of his three-storeyed apartment.

“I’m hysterical. They killed this man in his own home. Why was he having this gathering in the time of coronavirus?” Chelles Kayle, Mark’s estranged wife told local media. “I just keep asking myself why I woke up last night with God telling me to call him, but we had an argument.”

Mark was a dialysis patient and used to own a 99-cent store which he had sold to keep up with his expenses.

“If you were elderly he’d give it to you. He was always extending credit. He had to sell the store to keep the house going,” Kayle said.

The police were on the lookout for the suspects and were questioning the people present in the house to find a lead on the gunmen.

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