Overview
- Police said officers responded to reports of shots fired around 10:23 p.m. on Friday and found two injured men inside Howard Playground.
- A 33-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the neck was taken to Interfaith Medical Center and a 35-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the chest and ankle was taken to Brookdale University Hospital, and both were later pronounced dead.
- Detectives from the NYPD homicide unit are leading an active probe and have not released a motive, arrest details, or the victims’ identities pending family notification.
- Police sources told reporters that a man seen leaving the scene was wearing a dark red hooded sweatshirt, black sweatpants and black sneakers and ran northbound on Mother Gaston Boulevard.
- The shooting took place inside Howard Playground within the Howard Houses, a public housing complex in Brownsville, a neighborhood where the 73rd Precinct had recorded five homicides year-to-date through Sept. 6, raising fresh local safety concerns.