Cops Still Searching For Park Slope Road Rage Shooter From March

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Cops are still searching for the suspect who killed a 31-year-old man months after the suspected road rage shooting, police said this week.

An NYPD spokesperson told Patch on Friday that there are still no arrests in the investigation into the March 13 shooting, which is the first suspected murder in Park Slope in at least a year.

"The investigation is ongoing," the spokesperson said.

The only update since the incident has been confirmation from cops of the victim's identity as Dean Lawrence, who lived in Flatbush.

Lawrence had been working for the US Postal Service while pursuing his passion for hip-hop, those who knew him told the New York Post in March.

Police sources suspect that Lawrence got in some sort of traffic fight with the shooter. He cut off the shooter while they drove near Sixth Avenue, they told the Post.

Lawrence was found with a gunshot wound to his head in the driver's seat of his white Chevrolet Impala. He was pronounced dead at Methodist hospital, police said at the time.

The shooting still remains the only homicide in Park Slope since at least this time in 2019.

Park Slope's 78th Precinct is one of only a few in Brooklyn that have not seen a dramatic increase in gun violence that is plaguing many other neighborhoods in the borough.

Citywide, shootings have spiked more than 200 percent in the last few weeks, compared to the same time period last year.

North Brooklyn has been a particular hot-spot for the gun violence, seeing 85 shootings in the last 28 days compared to just 14 during the same period in 2019, according to NYPD data.

The South Brooklyn patrol, which the 78th Precinct is a part of, has seen a similar 192 percent increase in shootings, compared to the same time period last year.