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Police responded to a report of gunfire on Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\nA woman was grazed by a bullet on a Brooklyn street Monday \u2014 marking at least the third innocent bystander to be shot in the borough in less than 48 hours. <\/p>\n
The 52-year-old woman was walking near the Glenwood Houses NYCHA complex in Flatlands when she was grazed by a bullet in the left arm around 1:10 p.m., police said. <\/p>\n
Three male suspects fled the scene on scooters after the gunfire, according to sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police responded to a report of gunfire on Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
First responders arrived at the scene on Ralph Avenue and transported the victim to Brookdale Medical Center in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police confirmed to The Post that she was an innocent bystander.<\/p>\n
Year-to-date NYPD data shows shooting incidents in the 63rd precinct \u2014 which contains the crime scene \u2014 have plunged 60% compared to the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n
However, Monday\u2019s shooting follows the tragic death of <\/a>Sofronie Hartzog<\/a>, a mother of five who bled out in a Crown Heights bar bathroom after she was hit by a stray bullet during a street brawl over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n The deadly gunfire erupted when a fight broke out between a group of about 100 people outside the Ooh La La Lounge near Bergen Street and Howard Avenue around 2:23 a.m. Sunday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n An errant bullet struck Hartzog in the back and a 34-year-old man in the gut \u2014 both unintended targets, police said.<\/p>\n Hartzog ran into the bar, where she collapsed in a restroom.<\/p>\n First responders rushed her to Brookdale Medical Center, but she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n \u201cThey killed her, that\u2019s what happened,\u201d her grieving aunt, Melinda Hartzog, told The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was the best person in the world,\u201d she said, adding that her niece left behind five children.\u00a0<\/p>\n Neighbor Jennifer Ortiz described the slain victim as a doting mom, always putting her well-behaved kids in nice outfits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was grazed by a bullet on a Brooklyn street Monday \u2014 marking at least the third…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1008166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,4219,42423,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,36798,3677,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-1008165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-guns","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nycha","tag-shootings","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260805114138-AG0RZR1-J6OC1-9-83LJDHW-0K.jpg\")
A woman was grazed by a bullet in Flatlands on Monday \u2014 marking the third innocent bystander shot in Brooklyn within 48 hours. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n