Man, 25, fatally shot in head during clash in Bronx NYCHA apartment he was visiting

A 25-year-old man was fatally shot in the head during a clash inside a Bronx NYCHA apartment he was visiting, police said Wednesday.

Cops responding to a report of shots fired in the Morrisania Houses on Washington Ave. near E. 169th St. found Randell Timber unconscious inside the first-floor apartment about 10:55 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

“All of the sudden, I heard ‘Pow! Pow!’ It echoed so f—ing loud,” said upstairs neighbor Idalia Rodriguez, 57. “I said, ‘Hold on, these were gunshots, somebody got shot.’”

Timber’s killer had fled by the time cops arrived and no weapons were recovered inside the apartment.

Timber died at the scene.

Two people found in the apartment with the victim were taken into custody, questioned and released, cops said. No arrests have been made.

Timber was visiting the apartment and lived in the Van Nest section of the Bronx, according to cops.

Neighbors said the apartment where the shooting happened is a hotspot for trouble.

“These people start arguing. From the argument they go into fighting, the fighting they come back with weapons,” Rodriguez said. “It happens often. Crazy crazy. You’re not safe in here.”

“There’s always something going down in that apartment,” another neighbor added.

Timber was arrested twice in 2019, for assault and for rape, but it was not clear if his criminal history had anything to do with his death.