Deadly shooting-Kingston and Dean

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Looks like Kingston Ave is heating up. Another shooting early this morning took the life of a 26night year old man.

whynot_31

On Saturday, August 11, 2012 at approximately 0205hrs, police officers responded to 1458 Dean Street within the confines of the 77th Precinct. Upon arrival, officers discovered that a M/B/26 was shot in the chest. EMS responded and pronounced the victim DOA.  There are no arrests at this time and investigation is ongoing.

Name of victim pending family notification.

http://savebrooklynnow.blogspot.com/2012/08/murder-on-dean-street-77th-precinct.html?m=1

Yes, it has been a pretty violent summer. This map shows the most of the shootings that resulted in injuries over the last 2 months: http://spotcrime.com/ny/brooklyn

Quite a lot a shootings in CH east of New York Avenue.

....not as many as -say- before 2006, but still a lot of shooting and killing.

BTW, please thank the Detective that did the work that resulted in this arrest:

On June 21, 2011, a 17-year-old named Darrell Smith was stabbed to death at 1785 Pacific Street; Details here.  Police later identified Orpheus Nelson as a suspect.

On Friday August 3rd, 2012 pursuant to a continued investigation the following individual has been arrested and charged with 2nd degree Murder and Criminal Possession of a Weapon.

DEFENDANT: Orpheus Nelson (M/B/19)

927 De Kalb Ave (Eleanor Roosevelt Houses)

http://savebrooklynnow.blogspot.com/2012/08/caught-for-201-murder-on-pacific-street.html?m=1

whynot_31

It appears as if there were two shootings in Eastern part of CH (within the 77th pct) in less than 12 hours:

The one we talked about above, that resulted in a fatality:

BROOKLYN *SHOOTING* 1458 DEAN ST / KINGSTON AVE. PD CALLING A LEVEL-1 MOBILIZATION TO THE SCENE IN REGARDS TO A PERSON SHOT * 02:19:11 MNS-333 * (C) [MNS106]

1458 Dean St

Brooklyn, NY

8/11/2012 2:21 a.m.

...and this one, not too far away, about 9 hours beforehand:

Shooting

M/b perp fled N/B from the scene.

Utica Ave & Dean St

Brooklyn, NY

8/10/2012 5:22 p.m.