copters are back

Maybe the St. Johns Place block party got out of hand. It seems to be hovering over that block. I didn't hear any gunshots but all my windows are closed and my music is turned up because my annoying neighbor was listening to Purple Rain AGAIN (for like the 200th time in the last month).

yeah. def. hear the helicopter. just was walking home and saw three cop cars wiz by on park twds washington.

Cops and ambulances were mostly concentrated on the Washington / Sterling corner.

Helicopter seems to be circling from Classon to Underhill between Sterling and St. Johns.

that's right -- 8 shots, a taxi cab sitting in front of tom's restaurant on washington, and i saw a person (cab driver?) being lifted into an ambulance. there is a rumor that three people were shot (presumably passengers), something about a robbery, but no one knows. things are starting to calm.

Yes, Washington is still shut down between Sterling and St. Johns. Cops told me it was a shooting.

Someone was still sitting in the cab (driver's seat) when the guy was laying out on the street (presumably deceased). There were ambulances around, and no one was working on the guy on the ground. Multiple victims? So unfortunate.

any way to get official information on something like this?

The police were discussing blocking off the street when I walked by. No one was attempting to perform CPR on the man behind the taxi. You would think cops would be trained to perform CPR. Unless the paramedics from the two ambulances were busy working on someone else, the man behind the taxi was being severely neglected.

rednaxela wrote: any way to get official information on something like this?

gothamist presently reports it as a shooting
http://gothamist.com/map/

...if the victims die, they'll update it.

2 Men Killed In Brooklyn
Updated: Sunday, 19 Jul 2009, 8:12 AM EDT
Published : Sunday, 19 Jul 2009, 8:12 AM EDT

By Luke Funk
MYFOXNY.COM - Two men were shot and killed in a car late Saturday night in Brooklyn.

Police were called about 10:15 p.m. to Washington Avenue and St. John's Place.

They found to men shot inside of a parked Chevy Caprice. They were taken to Kings County Hospital.

A 23-year-old man was dead with a gunshot wound to the head and the second one had a bullet in his mid-section. He was also dead by the time he got to the hospital. Police have not released their names.

There are no arrests in the case.

i just read the MYFOXNY.COM report. it doesn't make sense -- the shooting was washington at sterling (right in front of tom's) and it was a taxi cab, not a chevy caprice. i am wondering: were there separate shootings yesterday?

jesus...

whynot_31 wrote: Remember how you were once involved in something first hand that made the news (big storm, murder, building collapse, business failure, etc) and they got a lot of the details wrong?

...they report just about every other story the same way.

CBS and NBC out on Washington and St.J's interviewing people now. Guess this will make the news after all!

I too think there were two sets of shots, first 7 or eight behind between st johns and sterling, very loud, which I called in because it sounded like shots back and forth, not your typical fireworks.

Apparently a little bit later the shots at sterling/washington.

Was called back by detective at 2:30am for phone interview. He was mostly interested in my suspicions of crips/bloods from elsewhere (large group of 'kids', all dressed in blue, walking with a swagger) seen earlier that night, and motorcycle 'group' around 9:15pm at stj/washy. He told me two were killed, one injured.

Note: block party and DJ shottakid vs DJ Lance (explaining the silly competing sound systems) was announced in flyers elsewhere in BK, see http://www.myspace.com/GETMADLADIES

yeah, thank you sayra72 -- it was a minivan cab. but thank you for the visual.