BROOKLYN, NY – Two separate shootings just hours apart in the early hours of Saturday have left two men dead in Brooklyn.
The initial fatal incident transpired in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Officers from NYPD PSA 3 responded to a shooting inside the Vernon Houses at 303 Vernon Ave. at roughly 2:43 a.m. on Saturday.
A 29-year-old man was found in the apartment building’s lobby with a gunshot wound to his chest. Preliminary investigations by the police indicate that the victim had been in the lobby alongside an acquaintance.
An unidentified suspect approached, leading to an altercation whose cause remains unknown. The confrontation escalated when the suspect shot the victim and fled the scene. The injured man was taken to Kings County Hospital but was declared dead soon after.
The firearm believed to be used in the shooting was found at the scene. The suspect, still at large, is described as a man in his 20s, with a dark complexion, last seen wearing a white t-shirt.