sanitation worker shot to death?

alafairnadia

anyone have any details on this?

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=62302

homeowner

Nothing official. Heard a ton of gunshots late last night. Sounded like a full clip from an automatic weapon or a large string of firecrackers. This was followed by a flurry of sirens about 5 minutes later and a police helicoptor buzzing the area with searchlight on for about an hour. I figured it was something bad because when I checked out of the window, the local pharmacutical agents were nowhere to be seen.

I looked around this morning but didn't see anything other than a teaser on News12 that three people were shot in Crown Heights last night.

ETA: Just saw the story on News 12. This occurred on Prospect Place, at a big party that was going on at a house betweeen Nostrand and New York. I'd heard the party going on earlier in the evening, but it didn't sound like it was anything that was out of control. This is such a shame.

anonymous

3 people shot? I'd only heard about the sanitation worker from the report on NY1. Then I decided to check here for the real scuttlebutt. Greeeat. Just when I'd decided to go ahead and put in my apt. application. (I'm the single mom who was inquiring about Dean St.)

More to add to my vacillation...

But is this just Caribbean Parade foolishness nonsense? I'm thinking this is not the best week to be gauging a veritable representation of the 'hood, per se. Fingers crossed...

homeowner

I think this was strictly a Caribbean day thing. Seems like there were three people shot at the party, and this guy got killed. On News 12, one of the neighbors said that the guy was trying to get a couple of girls out of the way when he was accidentally hit.

This is a bad week to judge what the hood it like because there are so many tourists and people from outside the neighborhood here for the parade. Mix in alcohol and some really bad things can happen.

apollonia666

homeowner wrote: This is a bad week to judge what the hood it like because there are so many tourists and people from outside the neighborhood here for the parade. Mix in alcohol and some really bad things can happen.

That's an important point, and one I fear will be lost on a lot of people!

(edited: LOST on a lot of people, not lots on a lot... oh, foo.)

carnivore

I know 9 gunshot victims came into Kings County last night, but I don't know how many of those were associated with the festivities.

anonymous

Does this really surprise anyone? Every year someone dies on the day before or of the parade. And saying that this is probably committed by outsiders ignores the fact that Crown Heights remains a violent neighborhood. It's a difficult thing to admit once you've invested money in a home, but it's so, so true.

homeowner

I'm not at all surprised by this, as you say, this type of violence is associated with the parade for better or worse. And I did not say that the violence was probably committed by outsiders. What I said is that this is a bad week to judge the level of violence in the neighborhood because there are an influx of folks as a result the parade. There are over a million people here for the parade itself not to mention the associated events.

Its no different that someone saying they don't want to live on 5th Avenue because of the level of drunkeness after the St. Partick's Day parade. You can't judge the neighborhood by this one weekend, or else your perception will be warped.

Those of us who own property here aren't at all trying to sugarcoat the situation. But I'm also not going to tell people that I dodge bullets every night going home, because its just not true.

anonymous

Subject: CH is rotten on Labor Day weekend. I hate the parade.

Drunk people pack into the yard in front of my building, and go into the courtyard to urinate. The landlord doesn't keep the gate locked because people live in the basement and they use the courtyard to get to their apartments.

I'm sick of the noise too. If only it had rained all weekend. Maybe it would have kept things on a more subdued level, and those two men wouldn't have been shot to death.

bojolais

Where on park place did this happen?

sweet tea

bojolais wrote: Where on park place did this happen?

on prospect, i believe, just east of nostrand.

anonymous

Subject: ny1 has info on shooting

Here's the one you asked about.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=62302

Here's antother one from earlier this weekend.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=9&aid=62283

blksafyre

homeowner wrote: I think this was strictly a Caribbean day thing. Seems like there were three people shot at the party, and this guy got killed. On News 12, one of the neighbors said that the guy was trying to get a couple of girls out of the way when he was accidentally hit.

This is a bad week to judge what the hood it like because there are so many tourists and people from outside the neighborhood here for the parade. Mix in alcohol and some really bad things can happen.

It happened at a private birthday party according to the news and had nothing to do with the Parade or the festivities associated with the parade.

homeowner

From the NY Times:

"Before the violence in the morning, police officers stopped by the house on Prospect Place where the birthday party was taking place around 1:15 a.m. to warn the people there of suspicious activity nearby, including a robbery on Nostrand Avenue, according to a witness who declined to be quoted by name, expressing fear of becoming a target. Shortly after the police left, the witness said, several strangers approached the house and tried to get in. They were told to leave and they did, but they lingered outside. The host of the party was growing anxious and tired and asked all the guests to go home.The guests, including Mr. Allen and other neighbors and family and friends, filed into the street just before 2 a.m.

A cousin of Mr. Allen’s, Debbie Griffin, who lives a block from where the shooting happened, said that as everyone was leaving, she heard sustained bursts of gunfire."

Here's the link to the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/nyregion/05slay.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print

alafairnadia

oh wow. what a horrible story. just awful.

I do wish the folks had called the cops when the strangers showed up, though.

blksafyre

alafairnadia wrote: oh wow. what a horrible story. just awful.

I do wish the folks had called the cops when the strangers showed up, though.

Here's some info off of the NY1 site: http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=62302

theoryofpractice

A damned shame.

ebrendan

Subject: Arrest made, murder charge filed

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=62327

Brooklyn Man Charged In Murder Of Heroic Sanitation Worker

September 05, 2006

A Brooklyn man arrested earlier Tuesday has now been charged with murder in the shooting death of a hero sanitation worker.

Damon Allen was killed after leaving a party in Crown Heights early Monday morning. Police say Allen was shot on the same block in Prospect Heights where Anthony Williams committed an armed robbery.

"After he did the robbery, he was chased by residents and people from the block," said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. "He came back to retaliate, as people happened to be coming out of the party. He began shooting. He himself was shot by another individual who had a gun."

A second man, whose name has not yet been released, is charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Police are investigating whether other shooters may also have been involved.

Allen was honored late last year when he and another sanitation worker saved a four-year-old child, thrown from a fire escape at a burning building in Canarsie.

He leaves behind two children.

ebrendan

And a little more detail here:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4530401

... They're shots that police now say were retaliation for an earlier robbery on a Crown Heights block.

... Authorities said Tuesday that they believe 23-year-old Anthony Williams committed a strong-armed robbery on that block 30 minutes before Allen was shot. They say Williams was first chased away by neighborhood residents, then returned and started shooting to retaliate. Police now say some 50 bullets were fired from at least four guns as Williams shot and other people returned fire.

... The other three people who were shot are expected to survive. Among those wounded, police say, is their suspect, Anthony Williams.

alafairnadia

ebrendan wrote: 50 bullets were fired from at least four guns

omg! that's absurd! how terrible!!