Seven people were injured in three shootings 10 minutes apart Monday night in various Brooklyn neighborhoods, police said.
Shots began at around 10:40 pm on Bainbridge Street near Bliss X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.
Two men, aged 27 and 34, were each hit in the leg, authorities said. They were taken to Kings County Hospital and expected to survive.
Less than five minutes later, a 35-year-old man was shot on Flatbush Avenue near Ditmas Avenue in Flatbush, police said.
He was also taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to survive.
Finally, around 10:50 pm, four people – a woman and three men – were trapped in a hail of gunfire on Bristol Street near Newport Street in Brownsville, authorities and witnesses said.
The woman, 23, was in critical condition and the men – ages 17, 35 and 50 – all suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
A Brownsville shooting witness, 55-year-old Robert Green, said so many shots were taken that he lost count.
Green said he saw three people – one woman and two men – put in an ambulance by the first respondent. He noticed that the woman appeared to be the most severely injured.
“I can see him breathing, but he doesn’t move,” he said.
A few hours after the Brownsville shooting, police were still roaming the area and bullet casings were scattered on the road.
Monday’s shooting came after the city last week experienced an increase in killings and shootings during the same time period last year, police sources told The Post.
From last Monday to Sunday night, there were 13 killings in the city, compared to five during the same week last year, sources said.
The city reported 40 shootings last week – the largest in a week since 2015. In the same time period in 2019, there were 24 shootings, sources said.
