Breaking: Shooting in Fort Greene
According to a tipster, there was a shooting a little while ago near the intersection of Fulton Street and Greene Avenue in Fort Greene. There are currently several police vehicles on the scene and the Fulton is shut down. If anyone’s nearby, please send a photo and some more details. The shooting comes on the…
According to a tipster, there was a shooting a little while ago near the intersection of Fulton Street and Greene Avenue in Fort Greene. There are currently several police vehicles on the scene and the Fulton is shut down. If anyone’s nearby, please send a photo and some more details. The shooting comes on the heels of the discovery of human remains around Fort Greene Park.
Update: 5 shot in a barbershop on Fulton, shooter possibly on the loose. Police advising people to stay inside.
Update: NYT Cityroom blog has the story here. Four people shot in the hair salon pictured below right; at least one dead.
Update: NBC has a story here.
Theres no way this can be chalked up to the recession, or lack of jobs or any of that ridiculous reasoning. They weren’t randomly shooting looking to rob someone, they had a target. It was an intentional murder where 4 other people got hit.
Thats why you should always pay your debts on time. In the words of one of the area’s finest, “they gon’ want their money rain, sleet, hail, snow”. I guess now sunshine can be included in there.
This is realli not cool there is actually a school BISHOP LOUGHLIN less than 3 blocks away from there where students wallk past here every single day.. Violence really needs to stop
yep barely can afford my rent, live paycheck to paycheck, was living in harlem with 4 other people! (granted it was a 5 bedroom apt) just to make ends meet for a while (at 31 years old btw). i guess maybe that’s not “piled” up. but i would never to think to rob or shoot someone for money or items. of course maybe i have been dealt more opportunities (barely) in life and since i do have an education (state school in jersey) it’s still a lot better than what a lot of other people were able to get out of life. so maybe for some it might not be what they have “right now” but what they might be able to have at some point? tho for months now ive been feeling my future is pretty damn bleak myself. 🙁
-rob
Williamsburguy, many of us have small apartments, crappy jobs, and have been disenfranchised. Anyways, if you’re going to make that argument, you should probably move out of Williamsburg since you’re obviously part of the “problem.”
I was sitting across the street having lunch with friends at Habana outpost when this happened. Ethan Hawke and some film crew guys were sitting at the table near to us – I suppose they were filming nearby.
We were busy – distracted by our pseudo-star sighting – when we heard the shots and nobody at habana moved for a minute or two. I think it didn’t register with anyone outside that they were real shots until we all saw people running. Then everyone bolted inside huddled behind a wall inside Habana. It was terrifying – we had a small child with us as well. I lived in FG for 6yrs before we got priced out when we were looking to buy. My current nabe (where I have heard gunfire several times) seems like a more likely candidate for this type of stuff than FG…so surreal.
I have heard about an increase in crime in FG. The discovery in the park, a story of someone being attacked for his iphone (jaw broken and teeth knocked out) on dekalb and vanderbilt at 9am taking his kid to school. I really love FG and still rent a workspace there. But there is clearly a rough side to it that still exists and probably always will.
williamsburgguy,
Stay in Williamsburg with your “White Guilt”
I have none, and I live in Fort Greene, not Williamsburg
Williamsburgguy:
Your argument makes no sense.
Crime was OUT OF CONTROL when parts of Brooklyn were redlined and you could buy a brownstone for 1 dollar.
Now that homes cost more than they ever have, crime and murders are at an all time low.
Today’s events are horrible, but your theory holds no water.
I’m not being an apologist, and true we don’t know the age of this particular shooter but someone made a remark about the kids/young folks and some of the criminal things they are doing, especially in areas such as FG where the young folks hear the old folks talking about gentrifiers. I work with schools in all 5 boroughs, more directly with schools and school administrators and this exact kind of research. True not all kids are bad, but many/most of the ones who do turn out “bad” can be attributed back to poverty at some point in their lives, and in our city you would truly be surprised at what income level poverty really begins – certainly not at a level that any young person out of school would make. Most likely no-one reading this entire blog knows anything about what its like to not be able to pay the rent here, or being forced to live 4-5 people in a tiny apartment – tenement style just to pay the monthly rent. So I am not asking anyone on here to feel sorry for anyone, but just making a point that when you start blaming delinquent kids for crime there is adequate research now in our city to show that the is a direct correlation to them or their families and the high housing prices/conditions, something that this blog has tried to make out that has done such great things for the city. The families being displaced are not actually leaving the city -for a lot of them they are just piling in with others and becoming increasingly more aggravated.
does anyone known if they caught the shooter yet?