Crime & Safety
1 Dead in Brooklyn's Second Reported BBQ Shooting of Summer
Rumored to be part of an "ongoing gang war."

One young man is dead and another injured after Brooklyn’s second reported BBQ shooting of the summer.
At 6:30 p.m. on Friday evening, the NYPD says officers responded to a call reporting a man shot near the Glenwood Houses, a public housing project at the intersection of the Carnarsie, Flatlands and East Flatbush neighborhoods.
The New York Daily News reports that there was a summer barbecue in full swing at the location when ”witnesses said they heard about ten quick shots, and then everyone at the gathering began running.”
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“Upon arrival, officers discovered a 23-year-old male with gunshot wounds to his torso and legs,” the NYPD says in a statement. ”EMS responded and transported the victim to Brookdale Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.”
The man who died has since been identified as 23-year-old Bruce Donovan. Police say his home address is in Crown Heights, near Weeksville.
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“A second victim, a 28 year-old male, was identified after he walked into Kings County Hospital seeking treatment for a gunshot wound to his left arm,” police say.
Another shooting at the Glenwood Houses just one week earlier took the life of 24-year-old Donnell Smith.
NYPD detectives have made no arrests and they say the investigation is ongoing.
However, ”sources” in the department tell the Daily News that the shooting was part of “an ongoing gang war.”
Inner-Brooklyn gang feuds were also rumored to be the motivation behind the backyard BBQ shooting in East New York one week before, as well as a front-yard shooting in Red Hook on Monday that claimed the life of one pregnant teen’s unborn child.
Another shooting at the Glenwood Houses just one week earlier took the life of 24-year-old Donnell Smith.
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