Brandon Lincoln Woodard, with his daughter in photo, graduated from the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2003, and was currently studying law at another school.  The same gun used in Monday’s point-blank assassination on a crowded Midtown street also sprayed a dozen rounds into a Queens home three years ago, cops said Tuesday. Ballistics linked the 9mm semi-automatic weapon that killed Brandon Woodard to a Nov. 22, 2009, fusillade of gunfire that incredibly injured no one, police said. The flying bullets smashed two front windows and a side window while damaging a door frame and the siding at 189-11 Mangin Ave., police said. Two men were involved, but no arrests were made. Cops also released a picture Tuesday of the suspect wanted in the cold-blooded Monday afternoon killing — taken just as he pulled out the murder weapon and blasted Woodard, 31, of Los Angeles. The brazen gunman, wearing a black hoodie and khakis, fired the fatal shot as Woodard was text messaging on his phone while walking on a rain-slicked W. 58th St. about 2 p.m. “The shooter walked up behind him and shot him at close range,” said Paul Browne, the NYPD’s top spokesman. “He just walked up, shot him and walked away.”  Cops also released footage from a surveillance camera that shows the suspect stepping out from the passenger seat of a Lincoln MKZ sedan, which was parked near the scene of the murder. The suspect, who appears to be bald and may have a beard, waited for about 10 minutes before Woodard strolled into his line of fire, cops said. Woodard had earlier checked out of the posh 6 Columbus hotel down the block — where suites cost about $850 a night, according to a receptionist. The bloody scene horrified passersby.  “It came out of nowhere,” said Sadet Kolo, 36, who was skateboarding nearby when the shot was fired. “I called 911 and told him, ‘Hang on. Help is on the way.’ He was talking a little. Or trying to. He was alive for a good two minutes. “Poor bastard. I didn’t even see the shooter,” he added. Woodard, who was enrolled at Loyola Marymount University as a law student, had a criminal record.  A striking image captured by surveillance cameras shows the moment an unidentified gunman raised a pistol to the back of Brandon Woodard's head on a busy street near Columbus Circle. Woodard, of Los Angeles, died from a single gunshot wound.  He got into a scrap with a bodyguard for R&B star Usher at a Las Vegas concert in 2004 — accusing the bodyguard of giving him a wedgie so severe that he bled. “That was one of the more creative descriptions of getting thrown out of a place I have ever heard,” the bodyguard, Elijah Shaw, said Monday night.  Woodard served time on a battery rap. He was due in court on Jan. 22 in Beverly Hills on a felony cocaine possession charge, officials said. In 2009, he pleaded no contest to a felony and a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge, and in 2008 he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of theft for stealing from a Whole Foods and another upscale market. In 2009, he was wanted for stealing wine from a supermarket near Los Angeles. He led a chase into a neighboring town and escaped. A source said investigators are looking for possible connections in work he had done in entertainment law. “This is a shock,” said the victim’s father. “He was a very good son, loving.” -With Rocco Parascandola and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
A man was shot in a broad daylight confrontation, a police source said Monday. The gunman used a silver semi-automatic pistol to kill him.