Crime & Safety

Brooklyn Man Fatally Shot In Neck Outside Curry Restaurant: NYPD

An unidentified man was found shot dead outside Great Indian Curry on Flatbush Avenue early Saturday morning, police said.

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for the person who fatally shot a man in the neck on Flatbush Avenue Sunday.

The 28-year-old victim was shot in the neck and chest outside Great Indian Curry at 1241 Flatbush Ave., near Avenue D, at about 3:20 a.m. Saturday morning, police said.

Emergency responders rushed the unconscious man to Kings County Hospital where he later died, said police.

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The man was the not the only person to lose his life in a shooting in Brooklyn on Easter weekend. One day later, a Prospect Lefferts Gardens man died after he was found shot in the face less than two miles away.


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