2 Young Men Shot Dead Near Bed-Stuy Over Weekend

WEEKSVILLE, BROOKLYN — In the course of a single winter Saturday, two young men were killed in two separate shootings in the Weeksville neighborhood bordering Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights in Brooklyn.

Around 6:10 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 19, 31-year-old Brownsville resident Henry McCord was shot multiple times in the torso on the street outside 802 Herkimer St. by an unknown suspect, according to the NYPD.

The New York Daily News reported that McCord was “standing on the curb arguing with one or more men sitting inside of a sedan” when one of the men opened fire — then sped off down Herkimer Street.

McCord died soon after at Interfaith Medical Center in Weeksville.

Later that day, around 4 p.m., 22-year-old Flatlands resident Sean Alexander Peart was shot dead behind the wheel of his car outside 1723 Dean Street — also in Weeksville, just a few blocks from where McCord was killed.

First responders discovered Peart ”unconscious and unresponsive inside the driver seat of a Infiniti at the location with multiple gunshots wounds about the body,” the NYPD said in a statement.

Police have made no arrests in either shooting.

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