{"id":430276,"date":"2025-12-07T04:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430276\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:46:27","slug":"two-men-shot-near-brooklyn-public-housing-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430276\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men shot near Brooklyn public housing complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brooklyn-shooting-lloyd-mitchell-12052025-1.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cop at scene of Brooklyn shooting\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Two men shot near Brooklyn public housing complex 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Plastic cups mark shell casings found at the scene of a shooting in Brooklyn on Dec. 5, 2025 that left two men seriously injured. <\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>Detectives in <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a> are on the hunt for the gunman who shot two men on Friday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the shooting occurred just before 7 p.m. on Dec. 5 near the corner of Sutter and Rockaway Avenues, near the Brownsville Houses, in Brownsville.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd73pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">73rd Precinct<\/a> and Police Service Area 2 responded to both a 911 call about shots fired and a ShotSpotter activation at the location. ShotSpotter is the NYPD\u2019s network of sensors designed to pick up sounds of possible gunfire and evoke a rapid response.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137815651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brooklyn-shooting-lloyd-mitchell-12052025-4.jpg\" alt=\"police car at scene where men were shot in brooklyn\" width=\"1200\" height=\"725\" title=\"Two men shot near Brooklyn public housing complex 2\"  \/>Officers from the 73rd Precinct and Police Service Area 2 responded to both a 911 call about shots fired and a ShotSpotter activation at the location. ShotSpotter is the NYPD\u2019s network of sensors designed to pick up sounds of possible gunfire and evoke a rapid response.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving at the scene, cops found a 20-year-old man shot in the stomach, and a 22-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds to both legs. EMS rushed both victims to Brookdale University Hospital, wherre they were listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the shooting is unknown and under investigation. A lone gunman was spotted fleeing the scene in an unknown direction after the shots rang out, police sources said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>A concerned resident lamented Friday\u2019s shooting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/brooklyn-neighborhood-gun-violence-73rd-precinct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brownsville has seen numerous shootings in recent years<\/a>, but so far this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-073pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 73rd Precinct has reported 29 shootings year-to-date through Nov. 30,<\/a> down 34.1% from the 44 reported at the same point last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a never-ending and unfortunate situation that the community can\u2019t tackle alone. We need resources,\u201d the resident said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>As for Friday\u2019s shooting, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation, police reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the shooting can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plastic cups mark shell casings found at the scene of a shooting in Brooklyn on Dec. 5, 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":430277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,199913,32675,22806,10866,1126,199914,4222,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,199915,22286,38019,199916,199917,199918,199919,67,586,132,5230,199920,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-430276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brookdale-university-hospital","10":"tag-brooklyn-shooting","11":"tag-brownsville","12":"tag-community-safety","13":"tag-crime-stoppers","14":"tag-december-shooting","15":"tag-gun-violence","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nypd-73rd-precinct","23":"tag-ongoing-investigation","24":"tag-police-search","25":"tag-rockaway-avenue","26":"tag-shotspotter","27":"tag-sutter-avenue","28":"tag-two-victims","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-urban-crime","34":"tag-us","35":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115676472216482872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430276","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=430276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}