A young man was fatally shot in a hail of bullets at a crowded graduation barbeque outside the Robert Fulton Houses in Chelsea, police said Thursday.

Raqiese Cohen, 21, was found sprawled on a bench, with a gunshot to the neck, on W. 17th St. between Ninth and 10th Aves. following the 9:20 p.m. shooting Wednesday.

Multiple bullet-shell casings were left strewn on the ground near where Cohen was shot outside the New York City Housing Authority development, cops said.

EMS rushed him to Bellevue Hospital , where he later died.

Cohen lived in the Robert Fulton Houses , just a few feet from where he was gunned down, cops were told.

A motive for the shooting was not immediately disclosed. Police said they were looking for three men dressed in black and wearing hoodies in the horrifyin

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