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- A woman was injured after she was shot through the window of her home in Brooklyn, the NYPD said
- The woman heard what she thought was knocking at her front window; the noise turned out to be gunfire, police said
- She was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, according to police
A woman was injured after she was shot through the window of her home in Brooklyn, the NYPD said.
The 59-year-old woman was inside her home on Putnam Avenue, near Claver Place, in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 3 a.m. on Saturday when she heard what she thought was knocking at her front window, police said.
That's when she was shot, according to police; the woman was hit once in the shoulder and once in the left arm.
She was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, police said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the woman was the intended target or if she was hit by stray bullets. An investigation is ongoing.
