Shooting was near spot where Chinese deliveryman was shot dead in April

.380-caliber shells at the scene of the crime

Victim, 54, gunned down by an angry would-be customer on Staten Island

24-year-old wanted in connection with murder of a door-to-door salesman

Police in New York are hunting a 24-year-old man suspected of shooting dead a door-to-door pots and pans salesman.

The 54-year-old victim and a colleague were walking from house to house selling kitchenware on Staten Island on Friday night – but one resident gave them an angry reception and told them to scram, police said.

The pair left, but the man who’d shouted at them followed them down the street in Mariners Harbor with an accomplice to the corner of Arlington Place and Grandview Ave and fired six shots.

Crime scene: A 54-year-old door-to-door salesman was shot dead on the corner of Arlington Place and Grandview Avenue on Staten Island on Friday

The victim, who has not yet been identified, was hit in the lower back and right knee and rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, according to the New York Daily News.

He died shortly after arriving, police said.

The suspect, meanwhile, also not identified, has not returned to his home and is currently at large.

Hospital treatment: The victim was rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, but doctors were unable to save him

Police found several .380-caliber shells at the scene of the crime.

The cold-blooded shooting took place just one block from where 51-year-old Chinese food deliveryman Richard Salvia was ambushed and shot dead in April.

James Sanders, 16, Otoniel Carty, 17, and Devin Hill, 19, have been charged in connection with Mr Salvia’s murder.