Suffolk County police probe fatal targeted shooting in Huntington Station

A man was shot behind One Stop Deli in Huntington Station, and Suffolk County police said the killing was a targeted attack on a busy Pulaski Street corridor that neighbors and business owners pass every day.

A 911 caller reported the shooting at about 4:15 p.m. Monday behind the deli at 150 West Pulaski Road, according to Suffolk County police. When officers arrived, they found an adult male with a gunshot wound and rushed him to Huntington Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Detectives from the Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad were sent to the scene and continued to investigate Tuesday. Police have released no further details about the victim, the shooter, or what led to the violence, but they described the case as a targeted shooting.

News 12 Long Island reported that homicide detectives were seen working near West Pulaski Road and Railroad Street, where a police helicopter hovered overhead and a K-9 unit searched the area. The response turned a stretch of roadway lined with local traffic and small businesses into an active crime scene as investigators tried to piece together what happened in the minutes before police arrived.

The fatal shooting adds to long-running public safety concerns in Huntington Station, where residents have lived through other major police responses in recent years, including a 2025 stabbing near a firemen’s fair. Monday’s killing, carried out in daylight and behind a business on a well-traveled street, is likely to intensify questions about whether the danger was aimed at a specific person or whether the surrounding area was at risk.

Police asked anyone with information to contact investigators. For now, the killing leaves one more stretch of Huntington Station marked by yellow tape, sirens and the search for a suspect who has not yet been publicly identified.