Crime & Safety
VIDEO: Suspects in Brooklyn Mass Shooting Open Fire on Backyard House Party
The shooting went down in East New York around 2:15 a.m.
Police have released footage of two men opening fire on a backyard house party in East New York at 2:16 a.m. on Sunday morning.
After the shooting, nine party-goers were hospitalized for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. “Additionally, four other people were injured fleeing the scene,” says the NYPD in a statement. “Those injuries are non-gunfire related.”
According to the NYPD:
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A preliminary investigation determined that there was a gathering inside of 1140 Stanley Avenue where two males walked up to the outside of location and began shooting. The suspects then fled the scene.
The nighttime surveillance footage of the crime scene is pretty grainy — but it appears to show two men approaching the backyard fence and shooting indiscriminately into the party.
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The following shooting victims were hospitalized at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville and Kings County Hospital in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
- 30-year-old female with a gunshot wound to the leg
- 24-year-old male with a gunshot wound to neck
- 19-year-old female with gunshot wounds to the neck and leg
- 38-year-old male with gunshot wounds to the arm and leg
- 24-year-old female with a gunshot wound to the leg
- 19-year-old female with a gunshot wound to the leg
- Another 19-year-old female with a gunshot wound to the leg
- 33-year-old female with a gunshot wound to the leg
- 26-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the leg
“The energy inside the party was good,” a party-goer who wasn’t injured tells the New York Post. “I heard the shots, but it was not from inside, something was going on outside.”
A nearby resident named Lakisha Pagan commented on Patch’s Facebook page:
This happened down the block from me...they don’t allways throw partys...but when they do it be a good time.
Anyone with information about the shooting or the suspects is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.
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