Stray Bullet Flies Through Brooklyn School Window, Hits Chalkboard

CANARSIE, BROOKLYN — A street shooting outside the South Shore High School educational campus in Canarsie, near the neighborhood's border with East Flatbush and Brownsville, almost turned catastrophic when a stray bullet flew into the window of a school classroom Tuesday morning and hit a chalkboard, miraculously dodging students and staff, police said.

Multiple shots were fired around 11:30 a.m. just across Glenwood Avenue, in front of the public Greenwood Houses project, according to the NYPD.

"A bullet penetrated the window of the school and flew into a chalkboard," an NYPD spokesman told Patch. "Students were in the class."

South Shore High School itself closed a few years back. Now, five smaller high schools — Brooklyn Theater Arts High School, Brooklyn Bridge Academy, Brooklyn Generation School, Victory Collegiate High School and the Academy for Conservation and the Environmentand — and two after-school programs are housed at the campus.

"We don't know what was going on" across the street, "but shots were fired," a police spokesman said Tuesday. "We found some shell casings in the area."

NYPD detectives do not believe the school was the intended target of the shooting. They're now searching for the suspect or suspects responsible. No arrests had been made as of late Tuesday afternoon.