5 People, Including 11-Year-Old Shot In Brooklyn In 2 Hours: Cops

BROOKLYN, NY — At least four separate shootings in Brooklyn during a two-hour span Tuesday night has prompted the borough president to ask for a "crisis response" from the New York City Police Department.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and activists gathered at Brooklyn Borough Hall's newly-painted Black Lives Matter mural on Wednesday to decry the night of gun violence, the latest in what has become a weeks-long surge of shootings across the five boroughs.

Adams pointed to six shootings in the borough Tuesday night, though Patch was only able to identify details about four. His office did not immediately respond to a request for details on the other two.

The four shootings, which unfolded between 8 and 10 p.m., include one in East Flatbush that sent an 11-year-old to the hospital.

The 11-year-old was hit in his right leg outside a home on East 29th Street around 9:45 p.m., police said. He is in serious but stable condition.

Victims were also sent to the hospital in the other three shootings, which happened in Flatbush, Crown Heights and Brownsville.

In Flatbush, an 18-year-old was shot in the groin area near Church Avenue and East 21st Street. The victim in Crown Heights was a 22-year-old who was shot in his left leg on Eastern Parkway. In Brownsville, a 19-year-old was hit in the right hip and a 25-year-old was hit in the buttocks on Lott Avenue, according to police.

There were no arrests in the incidents as of Wednesday, an NYPD spokesperson said.

Adams said the shootings mean Brooklyn is in need of a "comprehensive crisis response" from the NYPD.

His request comes with the backdrop of an $88.1 billion budget for New York City passed late Tuesday night that includes a nearly $1 billion cut to the NYPD.

The budget — which also includes a $9-billion hit from the coronavirus pandemic — has been decried both by police unions who claim the cuts will impact their ability to respond to such shootings and activists who pushed for more meaningful reforms to the NYPD's budget.

Adams is among the latter.

“The city is in crisis, inequality is deepening, New Yorkers are marching every day against injustice — and instead of forging change and lighting a path to a brighter future, this budget simply maintains the status quo," he said after Tuesday's vote.

"We must finally address racial disparities in health, justice, and economic opportunity throughout our City government, including in the NYPD, by investing in communities of color and supporting those hurt by COVID-19.”