Crime & Safety
Bed-Stuy Man Found Dead Under Bed After Brooklyn Drug Bust: Cops
Officers found Shawn Joseph's body under the bed when they went back to a Brownsville apartment to retrieve a suspect's gun, police said.
BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — Murder charges have been filed in the death of a Bed-Stuy man police found in an apartment they were searching after a drug bust, according to police.
Police were searching an apartment on Hegeman Avenue — where three people had been found with drug paraphernalia on Thursday — when they found Shawn Joseph unconscious under the bed with multiple gunshot wounds, according to police.
The officers had come back to the apartment to retrieve a gun, which they found out about during their investigation, police said. Reports of shots being fired inside had first brought them to the Hegeman Avenue building, according to police.
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Joseph, 30, was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He had lived on Lewis Avenue in Bed-Stuy, records show.
On Monday, police charged 25-year-old Shakim Lloyd with murder for the killing, they announced.
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Police have not yet revealed charges for those taken into custody during the drug bust.
They said Monday that the investigation is ongoing.
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