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A 39-year-old man was shot Wednesday evening in a Brooklyn neighborhood policed by the seventy fifth Precinct, which has seen a surge in gun violence this 12 months, police mentioned.
The sufferer was struck within the arm and leg exterior a bodega at 2520 Linden Boulevard in East New York at about 7:45 p.m., cops mentioned. He was hospitalized in secure situation.
The capturing was simply the latest throughout the boundaries of the seventy fifth, the place a spate of summer time gunplay has introduced again reminiscences of the world’s bloody previous.
“I by no means thought I might dwell on this neighborhood,” resident Karen Niles mentioned close to the scene of the capturing. “I keep in mind when it was referred to as ‘the Killing Field.’ This will not be good.”
The daylight capturing left behind a path of blood from the place the sufferer was shot to the Cypress Hill Houses throughout the road.
A bullet additionally tore a gap into the wheel effectively of a grey Nissan Murano parked out entrance of the bodega.
Shooting incidents within the precinct are up 26.3% via Sunday, in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.
Since the beginning of summer time, shootings within the precinct doubled — up 100% — over the earlier 28 days, in comparison with 2021.
