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Brooklyn detectives have opened a homicide investigation into the suspicious death of a man reported last week. Police said Justin Tetro, 51, was found dead inside his apartment at 21 Pennsylvania Ave. in Cypress Hills during a wellness check just before 11:05 a.m. on Dec. 11. Officers from the 75th Precinct were called to the location by family members to conduct a wellness check. When they gained access to Tetro's residence, they found him unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to his head and neck.

Six teenagers were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning outside a party venue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, according to police. Officers responded at approximately 1:15 a.m. to a 911 call reporting multiple people shot outside 2929 Atlantic Ave., an NYPD spokesperson said. When police officers arrived, they found six victims ranging in age from 15 to 17. A 15-year-old girl was shot in the chest, hip and leg, while another 15-year-old girl was shot in the right leg.

A double stabbing in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills neighborhood early Friday left a 30-year-old man dead and another man hospitalized, police said. Officers from the 102nd Precinct in Queens responded just before 1 a.m. to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center after two men arrived there by private transportation with stab wounds, according to the NYPD. A 30-year-old man who had been stabbed in the armpit was later pronounced dead, police said.

The new development at 3079 Atlantic Ave. will transform the site into two eight-story mixed-use buildings totaling 198 apartments and commercial space.