Man shot dead outside One Stop Deli in Huntington Station

A man was shot dead in a suspected "targeted shooting" behind a deli in Huntington Station, the Suffolk County Police Department said Tuesday.

The shooting occurred about 4:15 p.m. Monday outside the One Stop Deli at 150 W. Pulaski Rd., the department wrote in a news release, which said the man was declared dead at Huntington Hospital.

The police media office declined to release further information about the shooting, such as the identity of the victim, a suspected motive, the victim's relationship, if any, to the deli and whether anyone was in custody. The police also did not say why detectives believe the shooting was targeted. The office did not respond to a request to make department personnel available to discuss the shooting.

Tuesday morning at the deli, which is located next to a body shop and the railroad tracks on Pulaski Road, east of Oakwood Road, customers stopped by for coffee, breakfast and pupusas. Yellow police tape, which blocked off an area outside the deli Monday, had been removed and there was no sign of police activity.

It was the second fatal shooting on Long Island in less than a week. On Wednesday night, 15-year-old Quacere Hagans was shot to death at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow during an argument at a barbecue that the Nassau County police described as a social media event organized by a "Blood gang group."

Although the police arrested a Westbury teen at the park on a weapons charge after he was seen leaving the scene of the shooting, no one has been charged with the killing.

Compared with other jurisdictions in New York State, shootings on Long Island are relatively rare.

Through the first quarter of this year, there have been at least nine shootings on the Island: two in Nassau and seven in Suffolk, according to statistics released Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul's office. There had been six over the same period last year, all in Suffolk.

In Suffolk, one person was killed by a firearm through March 31, four fewer than through the first three months last year. Hagans was the first person killed by a firearm in Nassau this year. There were no firearms-related homicides in Nassau in the first quarter of 2025, according to the statistics.

The statistics don't track every police agency on the Island — there are dozens — although the two county police departments handle the majority of shooting cases.

Newsday's John Asbury contributed to this story.