{"id":134137,"date":"2026-02-15T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134137\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:01:11","slug":"man-31-dies-after-hes-shot-in-head-outside-queens-laundromat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134137\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 31, dies after he\u2019s shot in head outside Queens laundromat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man died after he was shot in the head Saturday morning outside a Queens laundromat, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dominick Lowery, 31, of nearby St. Albans, was shot in front of Wash &amp; Fold Super Laundry at the Conduit Plaza shopping strip around 8:37 a.m. near Springfield Blvd. and 144th Ave. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/05\/dead-man-found-inside-burning-dumpster-near-queens-strip-mall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Laurelton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Laurelton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EMS rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jamaica Hospital;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jamaica Hospital<\/a> where he was in critical condition. Lowery was on life support for a few hours before being pronounced dead, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No arrest has been made and police did not provide information on a possible suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI heard a pop, I come to the front of the door and I see a guy in green camo running,\u201d a man named Mohammad who works at a nearby Edible Arrangements shop said Saturday after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI thought this was a safe area but it\u2019s making me second guess,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another man, Asim, said witnessing the incident was traumatizing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI heard the gunshot and I thought I was imagining, and usually planes fly overhead, so I thought it was the planes malfunctioning,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw the victim\u2019s mother crying and screaming and I was like, heck is actually happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt was scary, very scary and I was all teared up seeing the mother and the young man on the ground,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted to just go home because it hurt me so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saturday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/04\/husband-of-west-village-man-82-shoved-to-death-over-bump-grieves-end-of-52-year-romance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the laundromat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the laundromat<\/a> was back open for business, after having been closed till 4 p.m. for the police investigation, according to a worker there. He said the shooting occurred outside in the parking lot and that, from what he knew, was not connected to the laundromat. The people involved weren\u2019t customers and had not come inside, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">People doing their laundry there were stunned by the shooting in the usually safe area. Some had only learned about it after seeing it on the news on the place\u2019s TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One man said that, as he was stuffing his clothes into one of the machines, he suddenly realized, to his shock, that he was in the same laundromat they were talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI just saw it on TV and I was, like, confused,\u201d he said. \u201cHonestly, just, it can happen anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died after he was shot in the head Saturday morning outside a Queens laundromat, cops said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[57173,25743,9,24,63,122,124,123,57174],"class_list":{"0":"post-134137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-dominick-lowery","9":"tag-laundromat","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-the-laundromat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}