NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – At least five people were killed in a string of shootings across Brooklyn on Wednesday night, police said, including a man who was shot multiple times in a car and a man and woman who died in an apparent murder-suicide.
The shootings spanned four neighborhoods over four hours between 11 p.m. Wednesday and 3 a.m. Thursday, with two of the shootings happening less than 30 minutes apart.
The bloodshed started just after 11 p.m. in Crown Heights, where a 37-year-old man was shot in the neck at 220 Schenectady Ave. EMS rushed him to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, where he died. One person was taken into custody in the shooting, police said.
Less than 30 minutes later, and just blocks east in Brownsville, a 28-year-old man was found riddled with bullets inside a car at Atlantic and Rockaway avenues around 11:35 p.m. He was pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center. No arrests have been made.
The gunfire continued shortly after 1 a.m. in Park Slope, where a man and woman were both found shot in the head inside an apartment on 2nd Street, near Fifth Avenue. The victims, both 34, were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide, as a gun was found near the dead man.
Then around 2:40 a.m. in Clinton Hill, a 35-year-old man was found shot in the head on Hall Street, just south of Myrtle Avenue, near the Pratt Institute campus. He was pronounced dead at Brooklyn Hospital. No arrests have been reported.
None of the victims have been identified as their families are notified.
The NYPD doesn’t believe the killings are connected.
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