Brooklyn Shooting Leaves 2 Dead and 1 Wounded, Police Say

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Two men were killed and one woman was seriously injured in a domestic violence-related shooting early Thursday evening at Clarkson Avenue and East 91st Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn — near East Flatbush and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens — according to the NYPD.

All three victims were transported to area hospitals after the 5:10 p.m. shooting, a spokesman with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) told Patch.

The two male victims was declared dead soon after, police said.

According to Allison Papson, a reporter for News 12 Brooklyn, a ”man shot his ex-girlfriend and her male companion in a car then fatally shot himself.”

NBC4 reported: “A man emerged from a car parked on a Brooklyn street, approached another car when it pulled up and shot into it, killing a man and wounding a woman inside before fatally shooting himself, police said.”

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