🌱 Flatbush Deli Worker Shot Dead + Activists Protest Kevin Parker

Happy Thursday, Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Variable clouds; breezy, mild. High: 60 Low: 54.

Here are the top 4 stories today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

1. Another deli worker was shot in Flatbush on Tuesday evening, after an apparent attempted robbery. The man, Fadhl Moosa, 20, was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. Mayor-elect Adams appeared on the scene the next day to express his concern over the incident, attributing it to a proliferation of guns on New York City streets. He said he's planning on frequently visiting crime scenes. (amNY)
2. A 63-year-old man's death in East Flatbush on October 9th was just reclassified as a homocide by the NYPD. Jean-Denis Renold was found unconscious with brain trauma by police after an apparent double-parking incident, and died several days later. (WPIX 11 New York)
3. Flatbush housing activists protested outside of State Senator Kevin Parker's office on December 9th, asking him to support passing "Good Cause Eviction" in the State Senate. The bill would give protection to approximately 1.6 million New York tenants that live in apartments without rent-regulation. (The Indypendent)
4. The highly contagious Omicron COVID variant is making the rounds in New York City. According to the CDC it could already make up to 13% of all cases in New York and New Jersey, as compared to just 3% in the rest of the country. (NYC Patch)

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Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• Online Department of Finance outreach event (4 p.m.)
• Catholic Charities Christmas toy workshop at St. Vincent Ferrer Church (4 p.m.)
• "Let's stand for Haiti": Haiti's Earth Quake Relief Mission Review at 495 Flatbush Avenue (6:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn issued a statement congratulating Eric Adams for picking the first Black woman police commissioner. She also attended a press conference after the fatal deli shooting, calling for an end to gun violence. (Twitter)
• Here's your chance to enter a raffle to "get a bite with your councilwoman" Rita Joseph one on one. (Twitter)
• David Alexis (who's running for Kevin Parker's State Senate seat) will be out canvassing for the DSA's "right to remain" tenants campaign. (Twitter)

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— Dashiell Allen