A gunman jumped out from behind a parked car and ambushed four young men in Queens early Sunday - killing a recent high school graduate and wounding the others.
Clad in a black hoodie and armed with a .40-caliber pistol, the gunman set his deathtrap near the intersection of 113th Ave. and 157th St. in Jamaica, police sources said.
"It was a major shootout," said Brandi Johnson, 23, who was on her porch nearby and saw the gun's muzzle flashing as the gunman unleashed two volleys shortly after 4 a.m.
Terrell Fountain, 18, who was planning to attend college in Pennsylvania, was mortally wounded - hit in the chest, back and one of his arms, police said.
Three other teens, including Darryl Adams, 18, were each hit once and survived.
The four were coming home from a cookout nearby.
"They were waiting for the bus, and when it didn't come, they decided to walk," said Fountain's aunt Shanel Mitchell, 43. "I was planning for his college; now I have to plan for a funeral."
Fountain, who lived in Springfield Gardens and was captain of the basketball team at the St. Christopher School in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, was taken by ambulance to Jamaica Hospital. He was also part of a dance group called "Team Up."
"Before he even got to the hospital, he was gone," said his mother, Brigitte Hoggard, 44, who visited her slain son at the hospital - the very place where he came into the world.
"When I went to the hospital, they took me into the room, and I knew something was wrong," she said. "I just cried."
There were no arrests Sunday, and police did not reveal a possible motive.
Adams was shot in the buttocks. His mother, Shanta Merritt, 41, said he was "okay" - but it was lucky the round did not do more damage.
"It just missed his intestines," she said.
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