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Father Murdered in University Heights

When police arrived on the scene, Nino Ganan was still breathing and struggling for his life after being shot twice in his back and once in the leg. But by the time medics arrived moments later, the husband and father of two had succumbed to his wounds and died.

Ganan’s wife, Damaris Jimenez, 27, said that on Monday evening, Aug. 27, her husband had just gone out for a slice of pizza from their home on West 188th Street when she heard gunshots.

She called his cell phone, but he didn’t pick up.

When Jimenez went out to the street to see what had happened, she found her husband a couple of blocks away from their apartment, near Aqueduct Walk and West Fordham Road, lying there surrounded by emergency medics. He was already dead.

Police said Ganan, 30, was apparently the victim of a robbery, though they couldn’t tell if anything had been stolen from him. Witnesses also said he was involved in an argument shortly before he was killed, according to police, who have yet to arrest anyone for the murder.

The investigation is ongoing, police said.

“He was a good man. A loving father, a real family man. I’m still in denial,” Jimenez told the Daily News. Jiminez and Ganan had two children, Nino, 9 and Alia, 6.

Other residents and his employer said Ganan, who worked at the upscale Lever House restaurant in Manhattan, was a good guy and a hard worker.

A good friend, Rob Ocasio, 30, told the Daily News, that “Nino would give you the shirt off his back.”

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