Cyclist Shot In Drive-By Shooting On Park Slope Border: Cops

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A 50-year-old cyclist was hit twice this week in a drive-by shooting on the Park Slope border, only the third shooting in the neighborhood this year as the rest of the borough faces a gun violence surge.

Video released by the NYPD Friday shows the moment a shooter, hanging out the window of a white sedan, fires toward the sidewalk near Baltic Street and Third Avenue. The drive-by happened just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday, police said.

The gunshots hit the cyclist, who was riding through a nearby courtyard, in the left shoulder and the upper back, police said.

Shots also hit two cars that had been parked nearby.

The cyclist was taken to Methodist Hospital in stable condition, police said.

The drive-by is only the third shooting in the 78th Precinct so far this year, an anomaly as the rest of the borough faces a dramatic increase in gun violence.

Other shootings in Park Slope include a still-unsolved fatal road rage shooting from March and a shooting in late July near Fourth Avenue, according to NYPD data.

North Brooklyn has been a particular hot-spot for the gun violence, seeing 243 shootings iso far this year compared to 124 during the same period in 2019, according to the data.

The South Brooklyn patrol, which the 78th Precinct is a part of, has seen a similar 19 percent increase in shootings, compared to the same time period last year.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips All calls are strictly confidential.