Marquise Frederick, 19, Wanted for Red Hook Shooting That Killed Unborn Child

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The NYPD suspects that 19-year-old Marquise “Kiki” Frederick, a reported resident of the Gowanus Houses, is the one who shot up a front yard in Red Hook on Monday night.

The 10:50 p.m. shooting at 9A Dwight Street injured five 19- to 22-year-olds — two of them critically — and killed 19-year-old Special Houston’s unborn child, police say.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams reportedly said at a news conference today that “this was about a retaliatory shooting on the wrong block. This family had nothing to do with the senseless madness the shooters carried out.”

According to Buzzfeed News:

[NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce] said 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 told Buzzfeed that “it’s territory versus territory. It’s project beef, and it been going on for years. This ain’t new.”

Shootings across Brooklyn in the past four days, including an attack on a crowded backyard house party in East New York, have injured more than 25 people and killed four (including the unborn child).

At a separate press conference on Tuesday, Boyce and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said they suspect most of these shootings have been gang-related.

“It’s blacks killing blacks, it’s Latinos killing Latinos,” Bratton said. “They live in different buildings, and they just don’t like each other.”

However, Boyce and Bratton argued at the event that violent crime in NYC is not much worse right now than it was at this time last year.

In a year-to-date comparison with 2014, shootings so far this year are down 0.7 percent. Homicides, on the other hand, are up 9.4 percent.

“In the big city in the summertime, there are times when you’re going to experience more violence than others,” the NYPD’s chief spokesman told reporters on Monday.

But police officials are clearly wary of an apparent rise in gang violence — not least of all in Brooklyn.

“We need to get this right. We can’t repeat the 1970s again,” Bratton said in a recent radio interview.

Anyone with information regarding the Red Hook shooting or the NYPD’s main suspect, Frederick, is asked to call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS.