The family of a Brooklyn man fatally shot by his neighbor, who himself died an hour later in a shootout with a police officer , was baffled by the turn of events, saying the victim had never interacted with his killer.

Leroy Wallace, 41, was returning home to his apartment near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. in Brownsville around 5:30 a.m. after a night out, when his next-door neighbor Dashawn Larode, 24, ambushed him and shot him at close range, police said. Wallace’s stunned family was still struggling to make sense of the carnage days later.

“We’ve never had any conversations with them,” said Wallace’s 22-year-old daughter-in-law, who declined to give her name. “It was just, if they left their key, they would press all the doorbells to see if anyone was home. That was it.

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