Police responding to reports of a male shot found a body that had been gunned down in front of 133 W. 104th St. shortly after midnight Thursday.

Kreembly Rivera, a 29-year-old Hispanic male from the north Bronx, was pronounced dead upon arrival at St. Luke’s Hospital, police said. Rivera had been shot numerous times in front of the Fredrick Douglass housing projects between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues.

Rivera had served three years in state prison for criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and an three additional years for criminal possession of a weapon. Rivera had been scheduled to appear for a trial Wednesday on misdemeanor charges from August 2005 of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree with intent to use.

The investigation is ongoing and has not yet yielded any arrests, police said.

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