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Fires engulf properties in
Sunset Park, Brownsville
BROOKLYN BLAZES: A fi re broke out in Brownsville (above) fi ve hours after fi refi ghters
responded to a call in Sunset Park. NYPD
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Cops are hunting the shooter who
gunned down a 29-year old man in East
New York on Friday.
A ShotSpotter device — a crimefi
ghting gadget that pinpoints the
sound of gunfi re and automatically
alerts authorities — alerted police to
the shooting at Atlantic Avenue near
Williams Avenue at around 3 a.m.,
cops said.
Upon arrival, offi cers found the
victim unconscious with a bullet
wound to the head, and medics pronounced
him dead on the scene,
according to authorities.
No arrests have been made, and
the investigation remains ongoing.
The death comes during an uptick
in gun violence in the area. Shootings
in the 75th Precinct, where Friday’s
incident occurred, have almost
doubled year-to-date since 2018 —
from 18 incidents to 33 — according
to police.
Police Department brass blamed
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez
for the increase in gun violence
throughout northern Brooklyn
neighborhoods — including Crown
Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and
East New York — earlier this month,
claiming the prosecutor’s jail-diversion
program puts too many illegal
gun owners back onto the streets.
A spokesman for the DA countered,
arguing that borough-wide
shooting stats are down compared
to this time last year, and that beneficiaries
of the program demonstrate
a lower recidivism rate than
incarcerated offenders.
Anyone who provides police with
information leading to an arrest can
expect up to a $2,500 reward through
the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers program.
The public can phone their tips to (800)
577-8477, log into the Crime Stoppers
website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.
com, tweet @NYPDTips, or text tips to
274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
All calls are strictly confi dential.
BY ROSE ADAMS
A fi re broke out in a Sunset Park
brownstone — and a Brownsville property
— early Tuesday morning, altogether
leaving four fi refi ghters and
one civilian with minor injuries.
Smoke eaters rushed to quell the
two-alarm blaze that engulfed the top
fl oor of a 50th Street brownstone between
Third and Fourth avenues at 3
a.m., and New York’s Bravest struggled
for more than an hour against the
inferno, which they ultimately smothered
at 4:14 a.m., according to spokesman
for the Fire Department.
One civilian was transported to
a nearby hospital for minor injuries,
according to the fi re spokesman, who
noted three fi refi ghters also suffered
minor injuries.
The Sunset Park fi re was followed
by a Brownsville blaze Tuesday morning,
which smoldered in the second
and third fl oors of a Pacifi c Street
residence between Saratoga and Howard
avenues at 8:20 a.m. Firefi ghters
managed to quell that blaze in under
an hour, sounding the all clear at 9:15
a.m.
One fi reman suffered minor injuries,
according to a spokesman.
An investigation to determine the
cause of both fi res remains ongoing.
Listening device tips police
off to East New York murder
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