Brooklyn saw a rise in shootings during Aug. 4-31, increasing 16% to 21 incidents and producing 40 gunshot victims, a 122% jump from the prior year period. Shootings had fallen monthly through July, a decline attributed to the Summer Violence Reduction Plan and gang-related arrests, with targeted neighborhoods experiencing a 50% reduction in shootings and a 19% decline in other major crimes. The Aug. 17 Crown Heights lounge attack killed three and wounded nine. Several smaller shootings and a police-involved shooting also occurred. Despite August’s rise, year-to-date gun violence is about 14% lower and major felonies edged down 1.4%.
In the 28-day period from Aug. 4-31, shootings across Kings County rose 16%, from 18 during the same period last year to 21. The number of shooting victims jumped 122%, data show, with 40 people injured by gunshots in August alone. Until August, shootings in Brooklyn and across the five boroughs had declined every month in 2025. Through the first eight months of the year, New York City saw a number of shootings, NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tuesday.
Officials have attributed the decline to the city's Summer Violence Reduction Plan, which saw more cops deployed to high-crime areas, and to gang-related arrests. Shootings were down 50% in neighborhoods that were part of the summer Violence Reduction Plan, per the NYPD, and other major crimes were down 19%. The most high-profile incident in Brooklyn came in the early hours of Aug. 17, when multiple gunmen - at least two of whom were believed to have been gang members - opened fire in a Crown Heights lounge, killing three people and injuring nine more.
While shootings rose in August, gun violence in Brooklyn is still down roughly 14% year-to-date. Outside of gun violence, the rate of major felonies in Brooklyn dropped slightly - 1.4% - in August, statistics show, with a total of 2,449 incidents reported from Aug. 4-31 compared to 2,483 during the same period last year.
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