Five people were killed overnight in a rash of violence across Brooklyn, police said Thursday morning – just as elected officials and community leaders met in the borough to talk about gun violence prevention in honor of National Gun Violence Survivors week.
The first was a fatal shooting at around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday on Atlantic Avenue and Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville. Police found a 28-year-old man hanging out of a car with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, and he was pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center.
The man’s identity was withheld, as police continued the investigation and worked to notify his family. No arrests were made.
Police said the next incident happened just after 1 a.m. Thursday on 2nd Street in Park Slope, where first responders found a man and a woman both dead with gunshot wounds in an apparent murder-suicide.
Both victims were 34 years old, according to police, and their names have not been released. Officials said a gun was recovered near the man.
The last shooting victim was a 35-year-old man, whom police found at around 2:40 a.m. Thursday on Hall Street in Clinton Hill. He was shot once in the head, according to NYPD officials, and pronounced dead at Brooklyn Hospital.
No arrests were immediately made, though officials said a gun was recovered at that scene as well. Police did not release the man’s name while they worked to notify his family.
On Atlantic and Rockaway avenues, 24-year-old Tyreek Lewis recalled seeing a car riddled with bullets in the aftermath of the shooting that killed the 28-year-old man.
He said he wasn’t sure what could be done to minimize gun violence in the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods.
“It’s just a regular day in Brownsville,” Lewis said. “This is how it is, it’s been like this. I don’t know if there’s a way to really stop it, because criminals are still going to get their hands on guns, regardless.”
“No matter how many times the police try to step…
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