3 Suspects in Custody for Red Hook Shooting

NYPD detectives made a breakthrough on Wednesday afternoon in their hunt for multiple suspects involved in a Monday-night shooting that injured five young people and killed one unborn baby in Red Hook.

“Three people are in custody” in relation to the shooting, says an NYPD spokesperson.

On Monday night around 11 p.m., a southbound SUV an an “older model” pulled up to 9A Dwight Street in Red Hook, police say. One young man allegedly exited the vehicle began shooting into a crowd of people in front of the apartment building.

The NYPD has been on the lookout for 19-year-old Marquise “Kiki” Frederick, a reported resident of the Gowanus Houses, since the shooting. Witnesses gave NYPD detectives his name as soon as they screeched up to the crime scene.

It’s still unclear if Marquise is one of the three suspects taken into custody on Wednesday.

NYPD officials and Brooklyn politicians have chalked the shooting up to the latest strike in a back-and-forth war between gangsters in Red Hook and the Gowanus Houses.

At a news conference, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said:

“This was about a retaliatory shooting on the wrong block. This family had nothing to do with the senseless madness the shooters carried out.”

And Buzzfeed News paraphrased NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce as saying ”the Gowanus crew was trying to retaliate for an earlier shooting, in which a Red Hook gang known as the Gangster Money Makers shot a man near the Gowanus Houses on July 30.”

A young Red Hook resident also told Buzzfeed that “it’s territory versus territory. It’s project beef, and it been going on for years. This ain’t new.”

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton tried to assure reporters and Brooklyn residents that the violence was contained. “It’s blacks killing blacks, it’s Latinos killing Latinos,” he said. “They live in different buildings, and they just don’t like each other.”