Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade left one man dead and seven injured. Monday’s gunplay brought to at least 43 the number of people shot over the Labor Day weekend around the city. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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The News reported Sunday that 24 people were shot in the 24-hour period beginning 6 a.m. Saturday.
During J’ouvert, the traditional pre-dawn celebration leading up to the parade, four men were shot at an East Flatbush barbecue that turned violent about 12:45 a.m.
Tyrief Gary, 18, was blasted in the chest at the cook-out on E. 54th St. Three other men – ages 30, 29, and 26 – were wounded in the barrage, police said. The four were taken to Kings County Hospital, where Gary later died. The others were in stable condition.
“He was only 18,” said Dimitry Foster, 18, who went to junior high with Gary. “He was a good guy. This is shocking.”
Two men were shot at Eastern Parkway near Rochester Ave. on the sidelines of the massive march about 2:30 p.m. Monday, police said.
One man was shot in the abdomen and the other in the lower back after they got into a scuffle with the shooter. Both were expected to survive, sources said.
The gunman fled into the panicked crowd.
“Everyone started running,” said witness William Long. “I saw people knocking the barricades over.”
About a dozen blocks west on Eastern Parkway, the parade’s main thoroughfare, near Rogers Ave., a man was shot in the leg about 5 p.m. Monday and taken to Kings County Hospital, officials said.
“He pulled it out and fired off two shots,” parade-goer Pauline Mash, 29, said of the gunman. “The crowd just went wild running.”
Around 6 p.m. Monday, a 27-year-old man was stabbed in the back on Rutland Rd. and Bedford Ave., officials said. He was taken to Kings Country Hospital.
“There were thousands of people out here,” said Jerome Philip, 69, who witnessed the stabbing. “It was shoulder to shoulder out here. They couldn’t get an ambulance in so they had to wheel him down the block.”
At about the same time, a man was shot in the arm on Park Place a few blocks from the route, officials said.
In another incident, a gunman fired shots just a few blocks from the parade route, on E. 94th St. and Winthrop Ave., around noon Monday, police said. The shooter was arrested and nobody was hit.
The latest string of shootings came after the mayor on Sunday called the weekend’s surge in violence “unconscionable.”
