An 11-year-old was among three people shot as deadly gunfire erupted in separate Brooklyn communities late Monday, authorities say.
An apartment hallway on Howard Avenue in Brownsville turned into a harrowing scene after the boy was shot in the arm just after 11 p.m., when neighbors reported hearing a loud bang as a group of unsupervised kids were hanging out.
One neighbor told NBC New York many of the kids said the boy shot himself. Another neighbor, 18-year-old Mamaz, who lives steps away from where the shooting happened, had the presence of mind to jump into action and apply a tourniquet to the boy's forearm.
"I just wrapped my sweater around his arm. Applied pressure. After that I took my sister’s phone, called 911," Mamaz told News 4. "We went downstairs. He has relatives. So I knocked on the door. They helped us as far as calling his parents, calling 911."
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Mamaz said the boy, whom she stayed with until an ambulance arrived, does not live in the building and was hanging out with a group of kids that included his older sister.
He was taken to Maimonides Hospital and is expected to recover. Police have not said how they believe the boy got shot, or whether it was accidental or not. An investigation is ongoing.
No description of a possible suspect was released by police, and no other details on that case were immediately available.
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About three hours earlier, also in Brownsville, NYPD officers responded to multiple 911 calls of two people shot near Mother Gaston Boulevard and Sutter Avenue. Cops found a 50-year-old man shot in the chest and a 41-year-old man shot in the shoulder. Both victims were taken to a hospital, where the 50-year-old was pronounced dead.
He was later identified as Anthony Barlow, of Brooklyn.
The 41-year-old gunshot victim is expected to survive. No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information on either case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
