shots?

Shooting

Park Pl & Franklin St

Brooklyn, NY

9/5/2011 9:15 p.m.

source: http://gothamist.com/map/

so many helicopters and sirens! wonder how bad it was.

a viable shootout; two blips turned out to full-out gun battle. didn't count but in my addled brain, about 20 or more shots. walking the effing dog: ran for our lives like the two kids in front of us who noticed the first two subtle pops and said pleading: 'why they shooting?'

sounded like everything was coming from Franklin Avenue near Park, Sterling, Prospect. Anyone else?

Closest I've ever been. Closest ever wanna be.

helicopter right over us now, at prospect btwn franklin and classon. seems to be working its way very gradually north, scanning with searchlight on franklin.

I was in LaunchPad on Franklin just south of Park when we heard the first shots. I looked out from behind the curtain and saw 4-6 officers with guns drawn firing on the entrance of the first door on Park to the west of Franklin, then I backed away from the windows until the firing stopped. Later once the place flooded with cops I looked again and saw someone cuffed and stuffed into a car (it looked like the cop may have hit him, but they were across the street so it was hard to tell). A little while later we heard them calling for locking down the block so we left and went south, away from the throng of cops and emergency workers and under the police lines at Sterling.

lots of stuff on twitter, as you can imagine --

couple of pictures of the scene, too

live police scanner now (mopping up it sounds like)

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=9659

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Kind of knew this is what would happen this year.

Same incident, described by a different reader over here:

yourlittleshark said:

and of course right after i posted that, i got a note from a friend on franklin and sterling that there was a lots of gunfire on the street outside her apartment. i live down the street from the 77th outpost and there have been nonstop lights/sirens coming and going and helicopters overhead for the past hour+

she just updated a minute ago:

"The shootout is over... Someone shot someone else and then a cop got shot and then some more people got shot. Everyone is accounted for here. Come on crown heights. Get it together."

It's being featured right now on NBC news (11pm).

4 shot, 2 dead, 1 of the shot was a female police officer.

This neighborhood proves time and again that it's not a good place for block parties and parades. Same old story--someone had an argument, left, then came back and had a gunfight. Only this time they shot a cop. That explains why people were getting stomped, and rightly so.

Cops literally on every corner and it makes no difference. Time for privileges to be revoked.

Brooklynleather, it bears mentioning that one of the police-scanner geeks reported shots fired out on Brooklyn Avenue near St. Marks around the same time, so you may have heard that.

ughhhhh. why!!!!

the shots didn't sound that close. then again someone was shot over here the same day i was mugged a few years ago and i didn't hear a thing.

but i was at the bus stop around noon today and this woman who lives on st marks and brooklyn was also there and we both heard maybe 3 shots fired coming from kingston or albany more likely. didn't hear anything about that, though.

i definitely saw cops on EVERY corner today as i was headed to the beach. cops even came into my building yesterday and i asked if anything was wrong and they said no. weird.

TRUE.