A gunman jumped out from behind a parked car and ambushed four young men in Queens early Sunday - killing one and wounding the others, police sources said.
Clad in a black hoodie and armed with a big pistol, the gunman set his death trap near the intersection of 113th Ave. and 157th St. in Jamaica.
The targeted group - all teenagers - were walking back from a party when the gunman opened fire with a .40-caliber gun shortly after 4 a.m., the sources said.
"It was a major shootout," said Brandi Johnson, 23, who said she was on her porch nearby and saw the gun's muzzle flash each time the gunman squeezed the trigger.
"I heard: Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!' Then it stopped. Then: 'Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!'"
"We heard those shots and that's it," she added. "Then it was quiet again."
Tommy Wimbley, a 44-year-old deliveryman who lives nearby, said the shots sounded as if the gunman chased his victims down the residential street.
"It startled me," he said.
One of the victims, an 18-year-old, was hit in the chest, back and one of his arms, police said. He was rushed by ambulance to Jamaica Hospital, but could not be saved.
The other three victims each suffered a single gunshot wound - a 17-year-old hit in the right arm; a 16-year-old hit in the left leg; and an 18-year-old hit in the buttocks. All were in stable condition at the same hospital Sunday morning, police said.
The mother of the teen shot in the buttocks said he is "okay," but lucky the round did not do more damage.
"It just missed his intestines," she said, noting her son hasn't been able to tell her much about what happened.
"He said he was walking and just heard shots, and he was shot," she said.
No one has been arrested. Police have not released information on a possible motive or publicly identified a suspect. The block was roped off with police tape Sunday morning as investigators probed the scene for evidence.
Another area resident, Jose Villatoro, 19, said he heard what sounded like an argument prior to the shooting.
"I heard a lot of noises, guys yelling on the street," he said. "There was talking then yelling then a few minutes after that: 'Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!'"
He said he believes the violence was a gang spat. "This is not the first time this happened on this block," he said.
The shooting was in the 113th Precinct, where 5 people had been slain as of last Sunday, up from 3 at that point last year. The command logged 17 shootings as of last Sunday, one more than last year.
The 113th Precinct is part of the NYPD's Patrol Borough Queens South, where there were 18 murders and 62 shootings as of last Sunday - both figures are down slightly from last year.
Still, residents say summer temperatures and gun violence seem to go together.
"This only happens in the summer," Johnson railed. "It's ridiculous! There's kids on this block."