Two dead, three injured in gun attack at Brooklyn event

Two men died and three others were injured this Sunday in an armed robbery at an event in the New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, as confirmed by police.

US officials said they traveled around 12:30 a.m. local time to Wortman Avenue and Sheffield Avenue due to the gunshot alert and calls to emergency services.

In the area, they found the deceased inside vehicles or around the scene of the event with gunshots in various parts of the body.

The injured, aged 30 to 50, were also shot in various parts of the body and are admitted to hospitals in critical condition.

“I heard two gunshots at the party then the assailant got into a black SUV”the security guard said at the party.

As of August 1, ten people had been killed in eastern New York City, down 52% from 21 homicide victims in the same period last year.

Homicides are down 2.4% citywide, with 245 people killed so far this year, compared to 251 victims in the same period last year.

However, in the last one, several murders were recorded in the city. Gun violence doesn’t stop in New York City, where several shootings over the past weekend have started at least 2 dead and 18 injured, during events during which at least one of them, police said, was linked to gangs.

On the one hand, Two men were killed, one in the Bronx and one in Manhattan, and eight other people were injured in separate incidents early Sunday morning.. According to police sources cited by the New York Post, of the 8 injured, 3 came from stray bullets when two groups started shooting at each other after an argument in Upper Manhattan.

In another episode, according to a video released by authorities, two individuals, wearing masks and hoodies, arrived from a street corner in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, pulled out their weapons. hidden under their clothes and started shooting at around 10:30 p.m. local time on Saturday (02:30 GMT) at a group of people, injuring 10 people.

There was a birthday party at a nearby restaurant and the sidewalk was packed at the time of the shooting, which left eight injured men and two women, aged 19 to 72, according to data offered by the Police this Sunday at a press conference. Three of the wounded were the target of gunfire, according to channel 7 of the channel ABC.

The men were followed on the sidewalk by two others on motorcycles, in which they fled. Police say the injured will survive. “There is only one common and recurring theme that keeps happening and has to stop across town. It’s weapons, several weapons on the scene. This is unacceptable on our streets in New York and it must stop, ”said Chief Detective James Essig., at the conference.

Police, who have closed several streets in the neighborhood for the investigation, have asked the public for help in locating the attackers.

(With information from Europa Press)

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