Man, 25, fatally shot in back outside Bronx apartment building

A young man was fatally shot in the back just steps from his Bronx apartment building — collapsing after he ran home in the wake of a fight that erupted at a nearby bodega, cops said Sunday.
Aneudy Santamaria, 25, was shot on E. 233rd St. near White Plains Road in Wakefield around 10:35 p.m. Saturday, police said.
“We only know that he got shot, and then came running to the house, and then he died like right here in the house,” the victim’s cousin, Lisdiany Suero, 18, told The Daily News. “Like, he turned purple.”
Suero said Santamaria was at Yum Stop Deli around the corner from his apartment building when a brawl broke out.
“They was in the store, and they first jumped him, and he ran here, and then that’s where everything happened,” she said.
After he was shot, Santamaria was able to run home and up to his second floor apartment, where he collapsed, said Suero, who lives in the same apartment building.
“I was trying to talk to him,” Suero recounted. “He wanted to respond back to me, but he couldn’t. He couldn’t breathe. He only opened his mouth and leave it open and close it. And then he just turned purple.”
“Everything happened so fast.” she added.
Medics rushed Santamaria to Jacobi Medical Center, but he could not be saved.
“It makes me feel sad and angry at the same time, because he was not a bad boy,” Suero said. “He was not doing anything bad to anybody.”
“He used to love to help a lot of people, like, if he saw you with a bag from the supermarket, he would come and help you,” she added.
Suero described Santamaria as a “good guy” who was “friends with everybody” — and called his mother daily.
“He used to call her every day, like every second,” she said.
When his mother didn’t hear from him the day of the shooting, she began to worry, according to Suero.
“He didn’t call his mom for the whole day. Now she’s like ‘Oh, that’s dangerous,’” Suero said.
Sanatmaria grew up in the Bronx, and lived in the apartment with his mother and brother, who traveled to Boston to be with family after the shooting, Suero said.
No arrests have been made.
Santamaria did not have any enemies, according to his cousin.
The slaying was one of several across four boroughs during a bloody eight-hour stretch. They include the fatal stabbing of a man by his Staten Island housemate at 1:45 a.m. Sunday; the shooting of a man behind a Queens retail strip about 3 a.m. Sunday, and; a double-shooting in upper Manhattan about 6 a.m. Sunday that left a 21-year-old man dead from a gunshot wound to the head, and a woman, also 21, hit in her shoulder.
Santamaria’s slaying comes amid a drop in murders this year in the 47th Precinct, which has seen six homicides and 22 shootings through Nov. 17, compared with 10 slayings and 31 shootings in the same period last year.