Two subjects were shot and seriously injured during an attack filmed by security cameras in Brooklyn, while a police officer was also injured in an accident while on his way to the aforementioned scene, authorities reported.
The attack was recorded and took place before 6 a.m. Sunday near the corner of Fulton and Linwood streets in the district’s Cypress Hills neighborhood.
An officer was rushing to the scene when a woman behind the wheel of a Honda crashed into his patrol car just minutes after the dispute, according to police.
The violence began when an armed individual approached a white Mercedes C300 that was parked near the highway intersection, seen in the video.
The shooter opened the back door and grabbed the passenger by the neck with his left hand. The criminal’s right hand was in his pocket, taking his gun and threatening his victim outside the car.
At that moment it was when the driver of the Mercedes got out of it and confronted the criminal, who was vigorously waving his gun, which was hidden in his shirt, and pointed it at both of them.
The three men engaged in a verbal exchange on the sidewalk before the passenger chased the gunman to grab the gun, security video shows.
After a fight in the middle of the street, the gunman opened fire and shot the 28-year-old passenger, leaving him badly injured on the asphalt, authorities say.
Subsequently, the shooter targeted the driver, an unidentified 33-year-old man, who fled the scene with his hands up. However, that didn’t stop the criminal from shooting him twice in the back before he appeared to lose interest in his victims and escape, according to the video.
For his part, the 28-year-old was lying on the sidewalk while torrential rain fell and a small crowd gathered around him, the New York Post reported.
“I heard the shots: ‘Bang! Bang!’” said a neighbor. “And I heard people shouting, but I couldn’t understand what they were saying.”
“I went out and saw a man on the street,” he continued. “The woman who said, ‘Call an ambulance! Call an ambulance!’ I returned to my house. It’s very dangerous.”
Officials said EMS took the two injured subjects to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where the passenger is in critical condition.
The other injured man was in critical but stable condition, officials said. No arrests have been made in the case.
Minutes after the shooting, the police cruiser responding to the call of the shooting was hit at an intersection a few blocks away, the New York Police Department (NYPD) explained.
The officer was driving near the intersection of Elton Street and Pitkin Avenue, just south of the shooting, about 6:05 a.m. when the 31-year-old woman crashed her 2013 Honda, officials said.
The official vehicle crashed into two empty parked cars, authorities said. Emergency medical services treated the woman and her 29-year-old passenger at the scene.
Officials transported the 28-year-old officer to Jamaica Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
The investigation into the incident is ongoing.
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