🌱 GoFundMe For E. Flatbush Shooting Victim + Company To Pay $900K

Good day, neighbors! It's me again, Dashiell Allen, your host of the Ditmas Park-Flatbush Daily.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and milder. High: 61 Low: 46.

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

1. The family of Jenna Ellis, a 20-year-old who was shot March 31 in East Flatbush is raising funds to help pay for her medical expenses. (GoFundMe)
2. An East Flatbush company, Lintech Electric, is charged with underpaying 200 workers it contracted for projects connected to NYCHA. Attorney General Letitia James is requiring that Lintech pay the workers a total of $900,000 in back wages. (Patch)
3. Suspects in a black vehicle circled several times around the victims of an East Flatbush shooting on March 31, police recently announced. Police have arrested Tishawn Blaires in connection with the shooting of 12-year-old Kade Lewin. (Pix11)
4. Nonprofit leader Monique Chandler-Waterman is expected to earn the Democratic nomination for State Assembly in the seat recently vacated by Nick Perry, the Ambassador to Jamaica. If she wins, Chandler-Waterman might be at odds with party leadership including neighboring Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn. (City & State)

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Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• POGV (Pop Out Good Vibes) Fridays at 3612 Claredon Rd. (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Flatbush neighbor Carol Anne just trapped her first stray cat, with a little help from Flatbush Cats. (Twitter)
• Here's five houses for sale in the Flatbush and Ditmas Park area. (Ditmas Park-Flatbush Patch)
• The Prospect Park Alliance is hiring a weekend carousel operator! Apply if you want to help bring the painted horses to life. 🎠 (Instagram)

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— Dashiell Allen