SUNSET PARK — GIOVANNI RIVERA, 31, OF Kensington, was fatally shot inside an illegal nightclub early Monday, the second homicide this year in the 72nd Precinct, reports the New York Post .

Rivera was gunned down around 5 a.m. inside a Third Avenue storefront club near 50th Street, police said. He was hit in the torso and back and died hours later at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn.

A suspect, named as Gabriel Hernandez, 27, of Greenwood Heights, was arrested at the scene. He has been charged with manslaughter.

Police are still investigating whether the men knew one another.

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