A young Brooklyn dad was gunned down Saturday night while on his way to pick up his 9-year-old daughter at a local beauty parlor — and his killer is still on the loose.
Jahshyim Whitfield, 27, was headed to pick up the girl in Clinton Hill shortly before 9:30 p.m. when he was shot in the torso and left mortally wounded on the sidewalk, police and relatives said.
The father of two was rushed to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“My firstborn is gone. My son is gone,” the dead man’s grandmother, Evelyn Whitefield, told The Post Sunday. “He don’t call me grandma, he called me ‘Ma.’ He would rather come to my house than his own mother’s house. He liked grandma’s cooking.”
Relatives said Whitfield, who worked as a security guard, doted over his two girls — Ariana, 9, and Kay Lani, 4 — and was on his way to pick up his older daughter at the beauty parlor when he was shot.
“He was a great father. That’s what he cared about, his family,” a woman identifying herself as Whitfield’s aunt told The Post Sunday. “He was a devoted father and while they took him, his daughter was spending his whole summer with him.
“Her life is going to be different forever,” she said of Ariana.
An NYPD spokesperson said the shooting is under investigation, and cops have not revealed a possible motive for the fatal encounter — nor have they nabbed they nabbed the culprit.
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