Others were sweeping up the streets. ( You'll just need to sign a waiver and have a, accompanied with a legal guardian over the age of 21). After investigators questioned Shutes, the District Attorney's Office ruled the shooting and act of self-defense. Thanks. BOOK A SHOOTING LANE TODAY 956-559-2459 . } Campus police at the University of Texas-Brownsville went door-to-door after receiving a U.S. government alert of the violence, police Lt. Armando Pulido said. To shoot a handgun you need to be 21 or older. BOOK A SHOOTING LANE TODAY! speaks at a march against gun violence July 29, 2019, just two days after two or more shooters left one dead and 11 others injured in a shooting at Brownsville's Old Timer's Day. “I’m hurt. event : event, 10 Lanes for Handgun, any caliber allowed.
(function() { In other communities where there are 12 people shot, they consider it a mass shooting.”, Saturday’s shooting took place at Old Timer’s Day, a massive annual block party with live music. All rights reserved. Investigators identified 32-year-old Michael Shutes, Jr. as a suspect in the shooting, Evans said. The death in Brownsville was one of four deadly shootings that took place in the city early Labor Day morning. I’m traumatized.”. Then we heard people screaming someone got shot and that’s when it became — I wouldn’t say a melee, because the cops really had it under control.” Thomas said he saw someone running who had been shot in the leg. 511 Shooting Range offers a safe place for friends and family to shoot. Mayor Bill de Blasio declined to use the term on Sunday, saying “that phrase is usually reserved for a different type of situation.”. A rapidly formed coalition of anti-gun violence advocates and local elected officials marched through Brownsville Monday evening in response to the Saturday block party shooting that left one man dead and 11 others injured. According to authorities, the on-duty police officer shot Rodriguez between the 2300 and 2500 blocks of University Boulevard. September 24, 2020Sep 24, 2020 | Clear, 68° F. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and brooklyneagle.com cover Brooklyn 24/7 online and five days a week in print with the motto, “All Brooklyn All the Time.” With a history dating back to 1841, the Eagle is New York City’s only daily devoted exclusively to Brooklyn. '”, “What took place on Saturday night was a mass shooting, and the media refuses to acknowledge it as a mass shooting,” said Brian Cunningham, executive director of anti-gun violence group Save Our Streets Brooklyn. on: function (event, callback) {
Eagle photo by Noah Goldberg, News for those who live, work and play in Brooklyn and beyond, September 23 | Shutes fled the scene after the shooting but turned himself in to investigators about an hour after the incident. ‘That community is prone to violence. My child plays in that playground. There were half as many killings in Brownsville’s 73rd Precinct in 2018 as there were in 2001, according to police statistics. I don’t know what the mayor’s motives are for his comments, but I know what I observed. The coalition — which includes assemblymembers, councilmembers, local groups, the public advocate, the borough president and others — is called the Brownsville Rapid Response Coalition and will address future acts of violence in the neighborhood.
State Sen. Roxanne Persaud also highlighted the difference between the responses to the California shooting and the Brownsville shooting.
No arrests have been made in the shooting.
No one else was injured. } Reach Cassandra Stephenson at ckstephens@jacksonsun.com or at (731) 694-7261. “Everyone says, ‘Thoughts and prayers for the people of California. It’s sexier to call gun violence in Brownsville gang violence than it is to call it a mass shooting. window.mc4wp = { “When the shooting happens in Brownsville, what did people say? "So far, what we've gathered is it was an ongoing issue between Michael Shutes and Xavier [Morris] that escalated," Evans said. “We get to the middle of the block and we think we hear firecrackers and come to find out it’s gunshots.”, Ampry-Samuel said it’s not the first time she’s witnessed a shootout. The shooting in Brownsville was potentially the worst New York City shooting since at least 2013, according to the Gun Violence Archive. About three other people were inside the residence at the time of the shooting, Evans said. -Shoot all you want! It’s hurtful. One man died in a domestic Brownsville shooting Tuesday morning that has since been ruled an act of self-defense. One councilmember talked about her own experience at the shooting, which happened during a massive block party, saying she hadn’t slept since Friday night.