Businessman Siaka Kone, in family portrait, was found shot twice in the head in the back of a Porsche SUV in Broad Channel, Queens, on Saturday.
A Harlem businessman from the Ivory Coast has been identified as one of two men found dead in the back of a torched Porsche SUV in Queens.
Siaka Kone, a father of two, was shot twice in the head and another man was burned beyond recognition, cops and family said.
Both bodies were found in Kone's blue SUV on Saturday night in Broad Channel, near the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, by cops responding to a report of a car fire.
Cops did not release the identity of either man, but Kone's family said police officers told them that they found Kone dead in his car.
Braheem Kone, 45, said his brother's wife, Amy, who is seven months pregnant, grew concerned about her husband on Friday evening.
"His wife called me when he didn't come home, which was unusual," Braheem Kone said. "Since he got here in 1990, he's been working hard to support his family back there and to bring his family over here."
He said his brother ran a livery cab service called Africa Express Car Service and a beauty supply store.
"He started a legitimate business and that's what he was doing," Kone said, as his sister-in-law sobbed and her infant son, Nieil, padded around in diapers.
Siaka Kone also has a teenage son in Ivory Coast, his brother said.
Braheem Kone said he had no idea who would want to kill Siaka but said cops asked him to identify his brother's business associates, friends and hangouts.
State records show Siaka Kone's driver's license was suspended recently for failure to pay traffic fines in the Bronx.
Braheem said his brother left his home in his Porsche about 6or 7p.m. on Friday with a friend who called himself Eugene Ella Eye.
The friend left his car in front of the home, Braheem Kone said. It remained there Sunday.
"I am shocked," Kone said. "I just hope that they find the person who did it."
