Brooklyn shooting leaves one man injured, second incident for the area in less than a week

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Brooklyn cops responded to their second shooting in five days on Tuesday morning.

On June 25, detectives from Brooklyn North and officers from the 77th Precinct responded to the call just after 3:10 a.m. at the intersection of Washington Avenue and St. Johns Place in Crown Heights, where they found a 61-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the right side of his abdomen. The victim was struck by a hail of gunfire near a construction site.

A 61 year old man was shot at the intersection of Washington Avenue and St. Johns Place on Tuesday morning.Officers recovered nearly a dozen pieces of evidence ballistics at the scene. A nearby resident Robert Simmons told amNewYork Metro, “This area feels like it’s getting hot again with the gunplay in the area. I’ll never get it.”

According to the NYPD’s Comp Stats 2.0 there have been five shootings so far in the confines of the 77th Precinct this year compared to 0 his time last year.

 

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