Another double shooting rocked Brooklyn on Sunday night as two people, including a teenager, were shot in a Cypress Hills park.
The outburst of gun violence was the borough’s third shooting involving two victims during the weekend.
Officers from the 75th Precinct rushed to Highland Park, off the corner of Jamaica Avenue and Elton Street, just after 9:30 p.m. on May 18 after receiving calls about the incident.
Upon arrival, cops found two victims: an 18-year-old man shot in the right forearm and a 15-year-old boy shot in the left thigh.
Paramedics rushed both victims to Brookdale University Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition.
Cops combed the crime scene for evidence. So far, no arrests have been made in the case.
Just 24 hours earlier, the 75th Precinct saw a double shooting in neighboring East New York that left an 18-year-old man dead and a woman seriously wounded.
Police said Zanir Childs, 18, had been shot in the chest across the way from a playground on New Jersey Avenue. He was pronounced dead a short time later at a local hospital. A second victim in the shooting, an 18-year-old woman, was hospitalized after taking a bullet to her right leg.
So far this year, overall crime is down more than 16% in the 75th Precinct, according to the latest NYPD statistics. But murder is up 25% in the precinct, and while the number of shootings has declined slightly since last year — with 15 shootings reported as of May 18, compared to 18 during the same period in 2024 — the number of people injured in those shootings has risen from 19 to 21.
Detectives are also looking into a double shooting on a basketball court in Crown Heights on Friday afternoon that left two men wounded.
No arrests have been made in any of the incidents, police said.
Anyone with information regarding the gun violence can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (formerly Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
This story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper’s sister site amNewYork.
