Man, 32, shot dead in Crown Heights building

The heartbroken girlfriend of a man shot in the lobby of his Brooklyn apartment building visited the crime scene Tuesday hours after his slaying and wept over his blood trail.

The 32-year-old victim, identified by his girlfriend as Rick, stepped into the lobby of the Crown Heights building just before 11 p.m. Monday and was shot multiple times in the head and body.

“He didn’t even make it out the door,” Rick’s girlfriend Kshana Ashley told the Daily News as she sobbed hysterically over a trail of dried blood on the lobby floor Tuesday morning, marking her boyfriend’s last moments. “They got him right here. This is so sad.”

Ashley and Rick had been dating for a few months, she said. She was on the phone with her boyfriend just before he was shot.

“I was the last person to talk to him,” Ashley, 29, said. “He said ‘I’m about to head outside.’ He was going to get something from somebody. And I don’t know what the hell… I don’t know what happened.”

Ashley learned Rick had been shot after a friend posted on Instagram about the slaying in the lobby on New York Ave. near Prospect Place in Instagram.

“I had to come here because I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I had to come here to really visualize (it). Everybody’s calling me but I’m like, ‘There’s no way I was just on the phone with him!’”

The sound of gunshots echoed throughout the apartment building as startled tenants called 911.

“I heard the gunshots. About half dozen. Just ‘Pop! Pop! Pop!’” said one resident who wished not to give his name out of fear of reprisal. “I hit the floor after about three shots and called 911 while I was on the floor. It was very unsettling.”

Rick’s roommates also heard the shots.

“When they heard gunshots they automatically went to him to find out like if he heard it too,” Ashley said. “But when they came out to come look, it was him.”

Medics rushed the victim to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved.

Police recovered about five shell casings but have made no arrests.

Rick leaves behind a 9-year-old daughter.

“He didn’t have no beef with nobody. This is why I’m confused,” Ashley said. “And why they thought to come to where he lay his head at.”

The murder comes amid a continued drop in slayings across the city. Through Sunday, 319 people had been killed, down 12% from the 363 victims during the same time frame last year.