A 23-year-old man was clinging to life Tuesday after being shot seven times while getting a haircut at a Bronx barbershop — apparently in retaliation for a murder that took place in the same neighborhood last month, police sources said.

The gunman stormed into the Odalis & Cheo Barber Shop on E.175th St. in Mount Hope about 1:30 p.m. Monday and opened fire on Ezekiel Burley as he sat in a barber’s chair, witnesses told police. Burley was hit in both thighs, the midsection and shoulder, officials said.

The shooter ran out of the barbershop to an awaiting BMW, cops said.

Emergency workers rushed Burley to St. Barnabas Hospital, where was still in critical condition late Tuesday.

A pair of armed robbers stormed into a Bronx barber shop Friday night and stole the barber’s jewelry as he worked on a customer, cops said.

The suspects were shown strolling up a Pelham Bay sidewalk near Manuel’s Style Barber Shop on Buhre Ave. near Hobart Ave. before the 8:30 p.m. heist, surveillance footage shows.

A witness in the barber’s chair sat motionless as a suspect described by police as a 6’2” black male wearing grey sweats brandished a gun in his waistband and grabbed at the barber’s chain necklace.

He then yanked at the 29-year-old barber’s bracelet, which fell to the ground amid tufts of hair as a second suspect, described as a 5’8” black male wearing camouflage pants, watched.

“We’ve had three or four cases when the victim had flashed cash or jewelry at that bar and then, later in the night, someone had followed them outside and robbed them at gunpoint,” the source said.

The muscular, Jamaican-born Simpson, known to his friends as “Z,” was obsessed with sports as a child and graduated from Bayside High School, relatives and pals said.

Cutting hair didn’t come easily to Simpson. But he eventually joined his brother at the popular barbershop frequented by NBA star Kevin Durant and other celebrities.

“I taught him how to cut hair and at first he didn’t take to it,” Samuel Simpson said. “But eventually he got in and came into the business with me.”

A handful of teary-eyed mourners carrying candles showed up at Strickly Skillz Tuesday morning to console each other and pay tribute to Simpson. Several women were openly weeping, speaking through choked sobs.

Customer Emily Laguerre, 51, could only think of one description for the fallen barber.

“He’s wonderful,” she said. “It’s so sad to see life taken like this.”

“He’ll never say no, even if you don’t have the money,” she added. “He’ll say, ‘Pay me next week’”

Simpson racked up more than 16,000 followers on Instagram, where he often posted photos of his barbershop handiwork.

“May the spineless bastard who took you have no peace for the rest of their sorry a– life,” one of his followers wrote Tuesday.

Paramedics rushed the mortally-wounded Simpson to Jamaica Hospital but doctors couldn’t save him.

Simpson, who worked with his brother at the Strickly Skillz Barbershop in Hollis, died just before 1 a.m., sources said.

 

“That was like my other half,” said the victim’s brother Samuel Simpson, 35. “Everybody says we looked alike. They always called us twins.”

Over the last month, robbers have targeted several people leaving the Breezes Island Grill, a police source said.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police are searching for two men wanted in connection with an armed robbery at a Queens barbershop.

The suspects walked into the Strickly Skills Barbershop located at 190-11 Hollis Avenue around 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 12 and robbed three men at gunpoint, police said.

The duo went through the victims’ pockets and took approximately $1,600, three cellphones — including an iPhone 6, gold chains, and a driver’s license.

One of the suspects fired his weapon while searching the victims, police said. No one was injured.

Police have released surveillance video of the incident.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (8477).  The public can also submit their tips to the Crime Stoppers websiteor by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.