#brooklyn-shooting

#brooklyn-shooting

Police said gunfire erupted at a public playground in Brooklyn next to an elementary school Friday morning, though no injuries were reported. The shooting happened just before 9 a.m. across from Stroud Playground on Park Place near Washington Avenue in Crown Heights, according to NYPD officials. Police said they're looking for three men wearing ski masks who fled the scene on foot.

BROOKLYN, NY - A man is in critical condition after he was shot in the head in Brooklyn on Thursday, police said Friday. The incident happened at 275 Jackson Ave. around 3:30 p.m. The 39-year-old man was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, according to police. What led up to the shooting is not known at this time. Police are looking for two possible suspects. No arrests have been made. An investigation remains ongoing.

A 39-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot in the head Thursday afternoon in Brooklyn, police said. Officers from the 94th Precinct responded to a ShotSpotter activation and a 911 call reporting a man shot near 275 Jackson St. around 3:30 p.m., authorities said. When officers arrived at the East Williamsburg NYCHA complex, they did not find the victim at the scene.

A 28-year-old man was killed and a woman wounded in a late-night shooting Thursday inside a Brooklyn apartment building, police said. Officers responding to a 911 call just before midnight at 380 Lexington Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant found Shyhemm Lee with a gunshot wound to the head and a 23-year-old woman with a graze wound to the neck, according to the NYPD.

Twin brothers were shot in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon, leaving one dead and the other injured, while the gunman remains at large, according to police and sources. The siblings were found with gunshot wounds when cops arrived at Sutter and Euclid Avenues in the East New York neighborhood around 2:40 p.m. following reports of an assault, police said. Darius Coles, 20, of Brooklyn, was blasted in the chest and later pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, the Medical Examiner's Office confirmed.

Brian Kendall was wrongfully convicted for a shooting in 1988 and served over 16 years in prison before being deported to Guyana in 2005.