26-year-old man shot and killed in Brooklyn
A man was shot and killed in Brooklyn on Tuesday, police said.
Police were called to Rogers Ave. near Park Place in Crown Heights for reports of a man shot just before 4:10 p.m., cops said.
When they arrived, they discovered a 26-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the neck and stomach.
Medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where he died just before 4:40 p.m., police said.
A gunman wearing a gray shirt and black pants was spotted taking off on foot eastbound on Park Place, they added.
Cops were working to track him down later Tuesday afternoon.
The victim’s name was not immediately released.
About a block away from the gunfire, a neighbor was walking with her 3-year-old nephew.
“We were gonna come here, to Rogers Ave., but something in my mind said, ‘No, don’t come here,'” recalled Nikitta Al-Amin, 33. “So we just turned the corner and went the other way.
“I thank God that I listened to my mind,” the woman added.
Nikitta’s mother told the Daily News the shooting was the second incident on the block in less than a year.
“But the other person survived,” said Shariz Al-Amin. “I just wish that the government would do more against guns because these guns are not walking in here by themselves. It’s like with the crack epidemic.”
