Two men were wounded in a shooting near the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville, Brooklyn, late Friday night, according to the NYPD. A 29-year-old man was shot in the right arm and a 30-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the lower back, and both are expected to recover.
The shooting happened just after 10:30 p.m. Friday near 422 Blake Ave., close to the NYCHA housing complex, according to News12. Police officers found the 29-year-old man with the gunshot wound to his right arm at the scene, and paramedics rushed him to Brookdale Hospital, per the NYPD.
The 30-year-old victim did not wait for police or an ambulance. He took himself to Brookdale Hospital just after midnight with a gunshot wound to the lower back, and he too is expected to be okay, according to police.
Six or Seven Men in Black Seen Fleeing
Sources close to the investigation told the outlet that six or seven men dressed in all black were spotted running from the housing complex after the shooting. Investigators recovered ballistics at the scene, the report notes, but details about what led up to the shooting were not immediately known.
As of Saturday night, police had made no arrests in the case, and the circumstances behind the gunfire remain unclear.
A Complex With a Troubled History
The Van Dyke Houses, located on Sutter Avenue in Brownsville, have seen violence before. In December 2020, a 44-year-old FedEx driver was shot once in the back while making deliveries at 395 Livonia Ave. within the complex, around 11:15 a.m., according to a report from the New York Post. Security cameras in that incident captured a man firing a weapon and fleeing, and there were no immediate arrests.
About four months later, the complex was the scene of a murder-suicide in which a man fatally shot the mother of his child and two of her daughters before turning the gun on himself, according to police, as reported by yourerie.com.
The NYPD tracks shooting and crime data across the city through its CompStat program, which the department has made largely available to the public, according to the NYPD. No update on arrests, charges, or a motive in Friday's shooting had been released as of Saturday night.
