The man gunned down early Saturday morning on Memorial Avenue near Braine Street has been identified as Jermaine Mullen, 29, of 2714 Grand St., city police Capt. Josh Bell said Monday afternoon.

An autopsy on Mullen’s body was being performed today at Lehigh Valley Medical Center in Allentown, which confirmed he died of multiple gunshot wounds, Lycoming County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr.

At least three neighbors heard the gunfire when Mullen was shot and killed near the south side of the street about 3:30 a.m.

“I heard three to five shots. It woke me up,” a woman told a reporter on her front porch late Monday afternoon. “I looked out my window and saw a body lying along the side of a (parked) car. As I was dialing 911, police were pulling up,” the woman, who did not give her name, said.

She said the victim was lying face up in the street. “There were several police cars out here,” she added.

“This happened way too close to home, and it is real sad,” the woman said. She never saw the gunman. “I stood out here for a while because I wasn’t sure of who it was. My heart was racing because I have (adult) children. I worry about my children,” the woman added.

Another neighbor, an Army veteran in his late 30s, said when he heard the shots, he looked out his bedroom window and saw the victim “rolling around” in the street. The man threw on some clothes, ran downstairs and bolted out the door. The veteran, who did two tours in Afghanistan, said he had heard four shots in rapid succession.

“My initial thought was to try to help him, to see if there was anything I could do for him. However, by the time I reached him and knelt down next to him, he was already gone. He wasn’t moving. He wasn’t breathing,” the neighbor, who has lived on Memorial Avenue for about a year, added.

“The police were here very quickly. It seemed like 10 to 15 seconds, they were here,” he said. “There was nothing anyone could do for him,” the veteran added.

A candlelight vigil for Mullen was held at 6 p.m. Monday. Arriving just minutes after the vigil ended, a man told a reporter that Mullen “was my brother.” The man, who did not give his name, saw several balloons in a tree that may have been left by those who had attended the vigil. He looked up at the balloons and said, “That was you, bro, waiting on me. I’m here for you. Rest in peace. I loved you to the death, do you hear me?”

Mullen “was a great guy. This wasn’t meant to happen to him,” the man told the reporter. “This was senseless nonsense,” he added.

“This is happening all around the world. It can happen anywhere. You’vre got to cherish your loved ones. Make sure you tell them every day that you love them, because you don’t know when it’s going to be the last day you see them,” he added.

“We hung out with each other every day,” the man said. “Right now, it just doesn’t seem at all real to me. I was just with him (late Friday afternoon),” he added. “He always came to see me. He was like my brother. He’d come see me every day to make sure I was OK,” the man, who is about the same age as Mullen said.

No arrest has been made in the case, Bell said.

Investigators do not yet know the motive behind the murder, he said.

Since the fatal shooting, several search warrants have been executed at houses, apartments and a vehicle, Bell added.