Brentwood Man Shot, Killed Outside Home

By Timothy Bolger Posted on January 13, 2017

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A 25-year-old man was shot to death outside of his Brentwood home early Friday morning, Suffolk County police said.

Third Precinct officers responded to a 911 report of shots fired on Meadowbrook Drive near East Middle School and upon arrival they found Florentino Hernandez-Zavala suffering from a gunshot wound in the roadway at 5:35 a.m., police said.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Homicide Squad detectives are continuing the investigation and ask anyone with information on the shooting to call the them at 631-852-6392 or call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.