The victims were sitting at a stoplight on the service road to the Van Wyck Expressway at North Conduit Avenue when two gunmen walked up to their Mercedes-Benz SUV and opened fire, according to police.

The front passenger, Sherwood Beverly, 51, of Brooklyn, was struck in the head; he was pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, police said. The driver, a 50-year-old man, was grazed on the neck, and a 50-year-old woman in the back seat was hit in the left shoulder. A 44-year-old woman sitting next to her was not injured, according to police.

After the shooting, the driver continued for several miles to the 69th Precinct station house, where he arrived at 5:19 a.m. seeking help, police said. He and the woman who was shot were treated at the hospital. Police said their injuries were not life-threatening.

The gunmen fled in a dark-colored SUV, police said.

Investigators were searching for the gunmen and a motive for the shooting, according to police. At the scene, police said, detectives found 11 shell casings from a 9 mm handgun and two from a .40-caliber weapon.

Earlier in the night, the victims had been at a dance club called Moka in the Richmond Hill neighborhood, police said. They said they were trying to find out if the conflict might have started there.

On Sunday afternoon, the street outside the 69th Precinct station house was still an active crime scene. Yellow tape surrounded the victims’ dark Mercedes-Benz with South Carolina license plates. It had jagged holes where three of the vehicle’s four side-door windows used to be. A bullet left a crack in the windshield.

The shooting occurred on the edge of South Ozone Park, by a residential cluster of homes with fenced walks and driveways tucked between the Van Wyck Expressway and the Belt Parkway.

Hours later, investigators walked the rain-soaked crime scene beneath the traffic signal on North Conduit Avenue, stepping around more than a dozen clear plastic drinking cups placed over shell casings on the roadway.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

ASHLEY SOUTHALL and SEAN PICCOLI © 2018 The New York Times