As Fareed Adeyi sat in his car outside a 24-hour laundromat down the block from his Bronx home last month, he had no way of knowing the recent purchase of the vehicle from one of his closest friends would lead to his own mistaken identity murder.

But moments later, Adeyi, 26, died in a hail of bullets behind the wheel of his Volkswagen Passat outside LaundryBee on White Plains Road near Rosewood St. in Williamsbridge.

Adeyi worked as an Amazon delivery driver and had big plans.

“He wanted to go into the Marines,” said Adeyi’s father, 64-year-old Kareem Adeyi. “In the Army, you’ll be able to study whatever you want, go to school, learn a trade. You know, become somebody.”

Those dreams ended when Fareed was killed by a a 16-year-old gunman aided by two accomplices, a father-and-son

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