Shooter Fires At 2 Patrol Cops On Bed-Stuy Rooftop, Police Say

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — Someone shot at two NYPD officers as they stood on a Bed-Stuy housing development rooftop Sunday night, police said.

Two officers were patrolling the Stuyvesant Gardens Houses roof at 835 Gates Ave. around 10:30 p.m. when they heard multiple gunshots, police said.

Bullets came flying toward them but missed the officers and hit a nearby rooftop door, police said.

The shooter, whom investigators believe fired from a nearby roof, escaped before the officers could make an arrest, police said.

The two patrol officers were conducting a "vertical patrol" at the Stuyvesant Garden Houses, where Bed-Stuy moms Chynna Battle, 21, and Shaqwanda Staley, 29, were fatally shot on July 12.

Neither mother was believed to have been the intended target.

Police investigate the deaths of Chynna Battle and Shaqwanda Staley at the Stuyvesant Garden Houses on July 12. Photo by Kathleen Culliton