Cops nabbed the maniac who shot and wounded a Manhattan shelter security guard after a week on the lam, officials said Wednesday.
Shaqueal Parker, 31, was picked up on a warrant Tuesday at his girlfriend’s home for allegedly shooting the 49-year-old worker on March 30 on Madison Avenue near East 28th Street in NoMad, authorities and sources said.
The shooting erupted steps from The Prince George, a shelter run by the organization Breaking Ground, where the victim works, cops and sources said.
The guard – who was off-duty and out for lunch when he was shot – according to sources, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
A worker at the Latham Hotel next to the shelter said he stepped outside when he heard two gunshots.
“I saw the guy laying on the sidewalk. He was on his back. He was bleeding from his stomach – around that area,” the hotel employee said. “Everybody got here fast – the police, the ambulance….maybe that’s what saved his life.”
Law enforcement sources said last week that Parker was “restricted” from entering the shelter.
“I heard it’s someone who wanted to get in but [the guard] wouldn’t let him in,” a 35-year-old man who had lived in the shelter for 3 years told The Post. “They are strict here. They must have told him not to let the guy in and he didn’t.”
“That’s f–ked up,” he added. “You gonna [try to] kill a man for doing his job. You are the one who f–ked up, you know what I’m saying?”
Daffeny Barochin, 30, who had lived in the shelter for about a year, said the wounded guard is usually very “respectful,” and that she didn’t understand why someone would target him.
“Where did that excessive anger come from that got him to pull the trigger?” Barochin said. “It’s a gun, he was trying to kill him or he would have just squared up with him.”
“I’ve never seen or heard him arguing with anyone so this is shocking to me. I’m surprised it was him,” she added. “He has a timid demeanor. He is not rowdy at all.”
Parker, who lives at a NYCHA complex on the Upper West Side, was also charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
His arraignment was pending Wednesday.
His most recent previous arrest was on August 27, 2024 for allegedly flipping over a bench where a 55-year-old man was sitting – knocking him to the ground – at Fifth Avenue and East 28th Street, cops said.
That victim suffered a large cut on his head, authorities said.
The disposition of that arrest was not immediately known.
He was also picked up by police on Nov. 2, 2018 on a warrant out of Dade County, Florida, cops said.
The nature of the Florida case was unclear.
