Six people were shot and one slashed in four separate incidents that took place near the route of the West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights Monday evening.
The bloodshed followed a largely peaceful weekend as New Yorkers celebrated Caribbean heritage with the annual event that draws hundreds of thousands of people to the borough.
But the weekend also has a history of violence that police had hoped could be staved off this year.
The NYPD released the following information about the incidents:
Shooting on Eastern Parkway near Utica Avenue
Police responded to the first shooting on Eastern Parkway near Utica Avenue at about 5:35 p.m., while the parade was still traveling down the thoroughfare in Central Brooklyn. Two people were shot, including a man in his 20s, who was struck in the leg and a woman in her 40s, who was grazed on her buttocks, according to an NYPD spokesperson.
Slashing near Nostrand Avenue and Eastern Parkway
At about 6 p.m., an assailant armed with a knife slashed a man several times near the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Eastern Parkway, according to the NYPD. The victim refused to be treated by medics at the scene and police have made no arrests in that attack, according to the NYPD.
Shooting near Eastern Parkway and Classon Avenue
Around 6:55 p.m., NYPD officers found a 36-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the shoulder and 21-year-old with a gunshot wound to the chest near Classon Avenue and Eastern Parkway, according to Officer Carolina Cavitolo, a department spokesperson.
First responders rushed both victims to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, police said.
Police said there have been no arrests in that shooting.
Shooting at Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Street
Around 7 p.m., a gunman shot two other people near the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Street, several blocks from the parade route, according to the NYPD.
The gunman in that incident shot a 53-year-old man in the neck and right leg, as well as a 40-year-old woman in the left ankle, police said. Medics rushed the man to Kings County Hospital in critical condition, according to the NYPD. The woman traveled to the same hospital on her own where she is in stable condition, an NYPD spokesperson said.
Police took a person of interest into custody in that shooting and the investigation is ongoing, Cavitolo said. It’s too early in the investigation to know if the pair were the intended targets of the shooting or if they were innocent bystanders, she added.
This article is based on preliminary information provided by the NYPD and may be updated.
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