NYPD seeks help identifying gunman in random Manhattan shooting

CHELSEA, Manhattan (PIX11) — Police are asking for the public’s help finding the assailant who shot a man without provocation as he was getting out of a taxi last month in Chelsea.

The victim, 32, was exiting the cab near the corner of West 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Nov. 13 when the attacker shot him once in the chest at close range then fled, authorities said. Investigators described the abrupt assault as unprovoked.