Brooklyn Rocked by Three Separate Shootings

Since Monday evening, there have been three unusual and disturbing shootings in Brooklyn.

A man shot into a crowd of people inside the Utica Avenue A/C subway station in Stuyvesant Heights during rush hour Tuesday evening. It was not a terrorist attack, but those who witnessed it may have thought it was, coming just days after events in Paris.

The gunfire seriously wounded one man exiting the train, and critically wounded another male, 27, who is believed to know the gunman, and to have been fleeing a dispute. “It’s too frequent, too rampant,” a worker at a nearby laundromat told the Times, “It’s like an everyday thing now.”

A shooting in Bushwick Monday was also unusual: It happened inside a clothing shop, at 6:20 p.m. Two men got into an argument, and one of them pulled out a gun and shot the other in the torso, Gothamist reported.

The gunman then fled the Blue City retail store, located at 452 Knickerbocker Avenue, along with an unidentified woman.

Video of the pair fleeing has been caught on security camera. The NYPD has released the footage in hopes the public will help identify the two. The victim was a 20-year-old man.

In the third incident, officers discovered a dead man lying face up in Boerum Hill, on Bergen Street, on Wednesday morning at 3:19 a.m. Fatally shot in the back, it is unclear if the unidentified male, thought to be in his early 30s, was shot on site or dumped there.

One man told the Daily News that he noticed the corpse before cops arrived, “I thought he was sleeping and drunk,” he said, “I kicked his leg and I realized he was dead.”

All three incidents are unusual because of where they took place: In a crowded subway station, inside a clothing store and on Bergen Street in Boerum Hill. They come at a time when Brooklynites are concerned about crime and blame Mayor de Blasio, even though crime statistics are down.

According to a citywide New York Times and Siena College poll, roughly half of New York’s white population believes the de Blasio administration has made the city a worse place to live. Just 28 percent of whites approve of the mayor, the poll found, while 59 percent disapprove, a significant increase since de Blasio entered office.

Furthermore, a majority of New Yorkers found the city to be less safe, and on the wrong track, despite the city being the safest it’s ever been, with historically low crime rates, according to the Times.

[Source: Gothamist, NYDN, NYT | Photo: Wikipedia | Video: NYPD via Dailymotion]

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