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A 12-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head while he was sitting in a parked minivan with his mother and another woman in Brooklyn on Thursday night, police sources said.
The second woman, 20, was also shot when gunfire erupted on East 56 Street and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush just after 7:45 p.m., sources said.
The boy was struck in the chest and head and transported to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead, sources said.
“I saw the victim in the car, he wasn’t moving,” a witness, who identified herself only as Kinmiko, told The Post.
The unidentified woman was struck in the right cheek and the upper left leg. She was transported to Kings County hospital and is expected to survive, sources said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the shooters were targeting the victims.
Two cars, including a black Infiniti sedan, fled the scene after the shooting. One source said investigators are eyeing the possibility that occupants of both vehicles were firing at each other.
The suspects nearly caused a car accident as they fled, one witness said.
“I heard eight shots and I would say within 20 seconds of the shots, I saw a car on the corner facing East New York Avenue … and they almost got into an accident with oncoming traffic,” one witness at the scene told The Post.
The witness said those who fled appeared to be young.
At least 11 rounds were fired, sources said, and ballistic evidence was recovered from the scene.
Rhonda White, 59, who lives two blocks from where the shooting happened, said she “had a bad feeling that something real had gone down” after she heard gunshots.
“Now I’m hearing that a child has been killed. I have lived in Brooklyn all my life and I thought we were past this sort of thing. But it’s déjà vu. There’s constant fear. The evil has come back to the city,” said White.
A 45-year-old woman, who would only give her name as Renee, said she was devastated by the boy’s death.
“Every time you hear shots in this neighborhood you hope and pray that this won’t be the one. Well, this time it was the one. I’m in mourning over that poor child. This is what hurts the most, when it’s just a baby who never did anyone any harm. How much more bloodshed before it stops?“
After a family was caught in the crossfires of a Brooklyn shooting while sitting inside their car, a child has been pronounced dead, and a woman has been sent to the hospital.
According to police, two black Sedans were driving down the block shooting at each other when those bullets flew into the family's car.
Police responded to the scene around 7:45 p.m. Thursday. The 12-year-old boy who was sitting in the passenger's seat was pronounced dead at scene. A 20-year-old woman was sitting in the driver's seat and was shot multiple times, but she is expected to survive her injuries. The 8-year-old child sitting in the backseat was not harmed.
I maintain that it is child abuse to willingly raise your family in such hellholes. This is a disgrace.
I heard about this in the news. Two kids just sitting in the car eating with another relative when two cars roll up, open fire and the twelve year old kid sitting in the front is shot twice, once in the head. The older relative was also shot, taken to the hospital and will survive after surgery. The eight year old wasn't hit. I've definitely sat in a car with relatives when I was a kid and ate in the car. Just sad and scary, as this was not late at night. It was maybe around 7:45pm.
The good news is with all the heat NYPD has been getting, they Still do an amazing job at tracking these morons down and making them squeal louder than an ikea bed during afternoon delight.
A 12-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head while he was sitting in a parked minivan with his mother and another woman in Brooklyn on Thursday night, police sources said.
The second woman, 20, was also shot when gunfire erupted on East 56 Street and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush just after 7:45 p.m., sources said.
The boy was struck in the chest and head and transported to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead, sources said.
“I saw the victim in the car, he wasn’t moving,” a witness, who identified herself only as Kinmiko, told The Post.
The unidentified woman was struck in the right cheek and the upper left leg. She was transported to Kings County hospital and is expected to survive, sources said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the shooters were targeting the victims.
Two cars, including a black Infiniti sedan, fled the scene after the shooting. One source said investigators are eyeing the possibility that occupants of both vehicles were firing at each other.
The suspects nearly caused a car accident as they fled, one witness said.
“I heard eight shots and I would say within 20 seconds of the shots, I saw a car on the corner facing East New York Avenue … and they almost got into an accident with oncoming traffic,” one witness at the scene told The Post.
The witness said those who fled appeared to be young.
At least 11 rounds were fired, sources said, and ballistic evidence was recovered from the scene.
Rhonda White, 59, who lives two blocks from where the shooting happened, said she “had a bad feeling that something real had gone down” after she heard gunshots.
“Now I’m hearing that a child has been killed. I have lived in Brooklyn all my life and I thought we were past this sort of thing. But it’s déjà vu. There’s constant fear. The evil has come back to the city,” said White.
A 45-year-old woman, who would only give her name as Renee, said she was devastated by the boy’s death.
“Every time you hear shots in this neighborhood you hope and pray that this won’t be the one. Well, this time it was the one. I’m in mourning over that poor child. This is what hurts the most, when it’s just a baby who never did anyone any harm. How much more bloodshed before it stops?“
I went to a catholic HS a few blocks from Linden & East 56th in the 1970s. Amazing how when East Flatbush was a Jewish and Italian area there were no shootings. Sad that Renee describes shootings as a common occurrence.
I went to a catholic HS a few blocks from Linden & East 56th in the 1970s. Amazing how when East Flatbush was a Jewish and Italian area there were no shootings. Sad that Renee describes shootings as a common occurrence.
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