A man gunned down in the back of a livery cab Saturday morning in Harlem had just left his girlfriend’s Bronx home after waiting hours for her to come home, police sources said yesterday.
Reginald Caraway, 32, was caught in a hail of bullets as he sat in the hired Lincoln Town Car at 11:30 a.m.
Cops suspect a hit.
Ten shots were fired from a beige Honda Accord that had pulled up next to the Town Car on East 129th Street and Park Avenue.
By the time the cops found the Honda yesterday in Jamaica, Queens, it had been torched – possibly because of published reports detailing its make and model.
Relatives said the only beef Caraway may have had was with the father of his girlfriend’s kids. Cops have declined to reveal her name.
Cops said Caraway, who spent two years in prison in the late 1990s for a conviction related to an altercation with a woman in Brooklyn, had a “history of stalking.”
But his dad called him a hard worker who had just been hired as an office clerk in Midtown.
“He was a good boy, always doing the right thing,” William Caraway said. “. . . The only trouble we ever had was with this girlfriend.”
Additional reporting by Larry Celona, Jamie Schram and Hasani Gittens