The city broke a nine-day murder-free streak last night when a man was found dead in the basement of a Queens apartment complex, police said.
The 20-year-old victim, whose name was not released, had been shot in the head.
He was found just after 6 p.m. in a building in the LeFrak City complex in Corona.
The slaying was the first in the city since Jan. 16, when Jennifer Rivera, 20, and her uncle, Jason Rivera, 30, were gunned down execution-style while sitting a parked car in The Bronx.
The nine days without murders came amid brutally low temperatures that cops say usually keeps criminals indoors — and homicides and other street crime to a minimum.
Last year saw just 414 homicides — a record chalked up to concentrating police operations in high-crime areas.
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