The other man, apparently without warning, shot him three times in the chest and once in the back, then fled in a dark-colored car, witnesses said.

There was a tall man getting into a dark-colored car.

She could make out a dark-colored, old-model car parked outside and a man saying he had come from the police department for "Keteshwaran."

The van driver and the armed man, both in their 30's, left the minivan, which had been stolen, and took off in a dark-colored car, Detective Czartoryski said.

The two men getting out of the dark-colored car only stared after the plane, one of them with binoculars.

He also said that the police had not investigated a report of a white man in a dark-colored car leaving Ms. Worthington's driveway.

In the case of acid rain spotting, the damage is most troublesome on dark-colored cars or those with metallic finishes.

Witnesses said that Mr. Garcia was struck and thrown into the air by a dark-colored car going north on Third Avenue, but that the car kept going.

The police said the gunman fled on foot down West Nicholai Street then got into a dark-colored car, driven by an unknown person, and sped westward.

Leaving the BMW, they ran north to 46th Street, where they got into two dark-colored cars - a Mercedes Benz and another foreign-made luxury auto.