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Police cordon off a dead-end portion of Grandview Avenue in Mariners Harbor after a man was shot, leaving area residents weary of an ongoing pattern. Tuesday April 1, 2014. (Staten Island Advance/Anthony DePrimo)

(This story is from April 2014: The latest news on this incident can be found here.)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A food deliveryman was shot and killed Tuesday night in Mariners Harbor, where Grandview Avenue dead-ends, a law enforcement source said.

Residents say the site is a notorious trap, into which delivery drivers are lured and then mugged.

The victim, a man in his 50s delivering Chinese food, was shot once in the head, police said, and was dead on arrival at Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton.

The shooting occurred just before 9 p.m outside 244 Grandview, said police.

A resident who lives directly opposite said he heard the gunshot from inside his home and ventured outside; he saw the victim on his back near his car in the middle of the road, blood coming out the back of his head, and brown paper delivery bags strewn about the corpse.

"The guy was just delivering food -- they shot him right in the back of the head," said the resident. Fearing for his safety, he didn't give his name.

Another resident, who also lives at the end of Grandview Avenue, noted that the neighborhood is hardly a stranger to violence. Delivery drivers are mugged so often on her street, she said, that many restaurants refuse to serve the area.

"It's a set-up -- they call delivery people, and when they come out here, they rob them," said the woman, who also insisted on anonymity.

"This has happened half a dozen times, if not more," she said. "No one wants to deliver here anymore -- there's a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, none of them want to come."

"It's scary because I have 3-year-old twins and I'm pregnant," she added. "There's gunshots all the time."

It wasn't clear whether the killer or killers robbed the driver.

No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, police said.

It's the fourth slaying of the year in the borough.

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