Four people shot, one slashed during J’Ouvert, West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn
Bloody conflicts have spoiled the parade of the antiovid day and the celebrations to go to Brooklyn on Monday – with four people injured and injured, and a person struck the annual popular events.
The Chaos started with two people slaughtered around 5:35 p.m. near Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. at Crown Heights; A man in their twenties was shot dead and a woman in her forties suffered an injury in the lower back, said cops.
EMS transported the two victims to Kings County Hospital in a stable state.
Almost 40 minutes later and about 1.6 mile from there, a man underwent several injuries at the oblique bar around 6:12 p.m. on Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Ave. The man refused medical treatment on the spot.
More shots then broke out along the parade road around 6:55 p.m. near Eastern Parkway and Classon Ave., where a 36 -year -old man was shot in the shoulder and a 21 -year -old man was hit on the chest. EMS also precipitated the two victims at the County Hospital of Kings, where they were also in a stable state.
There was no arrest in any of the disturbing incidents.
On Friday, the NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch said that “thousands” of cops would be detailed along the road to the East-Ou-Ridicule parade in the eastern Parkway and in the neighboring streets for the celebration of the article. In addition, 2,500 additional cops were displayed at distortion points in the city’s districts as part of a global anti-violence initiative for the end of summer weekend.
The Antilles parade and I opened are forever among the largest events in NYPD in terms of transparent transport.
Last year, a shooter jumped a barricade during the parade and opened fire, injuring a rival of a 16 -year -old gang and hitting four others, killing a 25 -year -old man. This shot is still not resolved.
Tisch had sworn that the parade would have this year two rows of barricades surrounding the event, like “a gap”.
“As always, NYPD, as well as our law application of the law, remain vigilant,” she said.
“We are all on the same wavelength on one thing: there will be no tolerance for violence of all kinds. This must remain a celebration-and not an opportunity spoiled by firearms or troubles,” she said, adding that the weekend event “is supposed to highlight the culture, music and the pride of the Caribbean and that should not be eclipsed chaos.”
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