NY - "Old Timers Day" shooting leaves 1 dead, 11 injured, shooter at large, Brooklyn, 27 Jul 2019

[Indy Anna]

Shooting at block party leaves 11 injured, one dead

A “brazen” lone gunman opened fire at a massive Brownsville, Brooklyn, block party on Saturday night, leaving a 38-year-old man dead and 11 others injured, law enforcement sources told The Post.

The gunfire erupted just before 11 p.m. as the annual two-day “Old Timers Day” party was ending and thousands of attendees were leaving, the sources said.

The violence was preliminarily blamed on a single shooter who remained at large early Sunday, and who had begun blasting into the crowd despite a contingent of some 100 cops monitoring the event, the sources said.

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[Indy Anna]

One person dead, ELEVEN others shot as hail of gunfire erupts at a Brooklyn playground | Daily Mail Online

'It was pure pandemonium': Man, 38, is killed as TWELVE people - including a child - are shot in a hail of gunfire at a Brooklyn playground during annual block party 'old timers' event

• Twelve people were shot on a playground in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn Saturday night
• At least one person has died from their injuries - a 38-year-old man - according to police sources
• A child is reported to be among those injured in the mass shooting
• The shooting came as the park was crowded with people for a community event which attracted hundreds of attendees

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[JerseyGirl]

NYPD CrimeStoppers will pay up to $2,500 for information that leads to an arrest and indictment and up to $7,500 leading to the conviction of the shooter or shooters responsible for Saturday night’s attack at the Old Timer’s Day block party in Brownsville.

Gunfire erupted around 10:50 p.m. on the second day of the event in Mendoza Park, killing 38-year-old Jason Pagan, a parolee and Bloods gang member, and wounding nearly a dozen others between the ages of 21 and 55.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/31/nypd-...ng-to-arrest-of-brooklyn-block-party-shooter/

 

[Indy Anna]

$10G reward offered in Brownsville shooting investigation

Police are looking for at least two gunmen who opened fire shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday at the Brownsville Playground during the annual Old Timers Day block party.

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[Indy Anna]

‘We Saw People Dropping’: How a Brooklyn Rite of Summer Ended in Bloodshed

Anthony Davis said he had just parted ways with an old friend at the Brownsville Old Timers Day block party when he heard a woman warn that a fight was about to break out.

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Nearby stood Jason Pagan, a 38-year-old reputed member of the Bloods street gang who had gotten out of prison six months earlier after serving time for a gun charge.

Seconds later, Mr. Pagan was fatally shot.

The shooting also wounded 11 other people, jolting a city where violence has declined but the police say gang feuds have fueled a rise in shootings that have killed and wounded more than a dozen bystanders this year, including a 7-year-old. Investigators were looking for at least two people linked to Saturday’s shooting, but had made no arrests as of Tuesday evening.

The gunfire started a few minutes before 11 p.m. after partygoers had sung “Family Reunion” by the O’Jays and had begun filing home from the Brownsville Playground, at Hegeman and Christopher Avenues. Some in the crowd used canes, walkers and wheelchairs. But younger groups of people were just arriving and congregating on the playground, witnesses said.

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The flash of gunfire lit up Mr. Pagan’s face, Ms. Fason said, and then the shooter, who was hard to see in the darkness, turned the gun on people who were fleeing. “He started shooting into the crowd,” she said. “All I see was the flashes going off.”

Someone fired back, possibly Mr. Pagan, the police said. Shell casings from the scene indicated at least two weapons engaged in crossfire. One firearm was recovered.

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A list of the victims’ injuries provided by the police suggested a worse tragedy was narrowly averted. Two of the surviving victims were shot in the head and six were struck in the torso, according to the list.

One of the bullets hit Daniesa Murdaugh in the back as she fled. Doctors told her they believed that somehow the slug had lost enough velocity — perhaps after ricocheting off her bra strap — to prevent it from entering her body, she said. “It terrifies me,” said Ms. Murdaugh, 21.

The bullet that hit Mr. Davis missed his spine by inches. He said police officers who put pressure on his wound saved his life.

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