NYC Killer Lay in Wait Near Central Park As Brandon Lincoln Woodard walked near Columbus Circle at the south end of New York's Central Park looking around and checking his phone, his killer lay in wait. The killer had been in the area for at least 40 minutes, ABC News has learned. And the car in which the killer fled was parked about 20 yards from where the shot was fired into the back of Woodard's head from very close range. Just before he was shot, Woodard, 31, of Los Angeles, turned "instinctively almost," then turned back to his portable electronic device, police told ABC News. "As he walks up to the victim the victim turns, but he makes nothing of it," a police source said. He is looking at his phone or iPod as he is walking. The shooter gets right behind him. It is one shot right in the back of the head. It is a hit, no question about it.