Allen McQueen, 21, shoot dead in the head at the Bronx with Daughter in his Arms: Cops Report

The last thing he saw was his wide-eyed baby girl still cradled in his tattooed arms, clutching her to his chest after a fatal bullet tore through his head.

Blood splattered onto little Taylor, a precious 1-year-old who escaped unharmed. But her father, 21-year-old Allen McQueen, was killed in the afternoon gunfire on a Bronx street.

The killer sped off in a Mercedes-Benz after the shooting, police said. It happened at 1:23p.m. Tuesday in Parkchester on Taylor Ave., a street eerily bearing the baby’s name. Taylor is also the name of a violent street gang — the Taylor Crew — that police say McQueen ran with in the Bronx.

“The guy shot a man with a baby,” one stunned onlooker said. “Who does that? Who shoots a man holding a baby?”

Taylor — who celebrated her first birthday last month and is nicknamed “The Diva” — tumbled from her father’s arms and was scooped up by Arielle Corkery, 23, who watched the violence from a homeless shelter.

“I was inside, I was with my two daughters, my bed was right next to the window and I heard two pops and I saw the guy drop with the baby,” said the mother of six.

Corkery said little Taylor cried for a couple of seconds. Then there was silence.

 

“(McQueen) was on his back, and when he fell he twirled and fell on top of her,” she said. “I picked him up, and I picked up the baby. She was covered in blood.”

McQueen’s siblings were horrified.

“My brother didn’t deserve to die like that,” his sister Jennifer McQueen, 35, said.

The shooting took place across the street from the Taylor Playground, which was teeming with children Tuesday afternoon.

 

“He looked scared,” a witness told the Daily News, adding that McQueen warned a bunch of kids to flee the area before the bullets started flying.

 

The gunman fired once and missed before chasing McQueen down the street and firing twice more, police said.

Moments after McQueen died, his brother was outside the emergency room at Jacobi Medical Center, screaming in anguish.

“My brother just died!” cried the sibling, who asked not to be identified. “He got shot in the f------ head!”

Relatives said McQueen doted on Taylor.

“Every breath ... every minute he was excited to see his daughter,” Jennifer McQueen said.

Allen McQueen had another side, one that cops say may have played a role in his murder. McQueen had been arrested 23 times, mostly for robbery and assault, and was known to carry a gun, according to police sources.

“He had problems with other people, but he’s young,” McQueen’s father, Woodrow Hines, 60, admitted. “He was a good dad. He had just left our house, too. He said he was taking her to the park.”

As of Sunday, 168 people have been killed in the city this year, a nearly 10% increase over the same period in 2014, according to police.