A woman was fatally shot in Williamsburg and a man was injured in Weeksville, in two separate incidents of gunplay overnight in Brooklyn, police said Saturday.
The woman was found dead with severe head trauma in the lobby of a Porter Avenue building around 10 p.m. Friday, police said.
Police believe the unidentified victim, who was in her 40s, had been shot once in the back of the head.
Investigators found one shell casing and blood spatters at the scene, police sources said.
“The circumstances are unclear at this point,” an NYPD spokeswoman said, adding the victim was “listed as a ‘Jane Doe’ because she wasn’t carrying any ID.”
Residents were stunned by the violence.
The man was transported to Interfaith Hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the neck. Seth Gottfried for NY Post“I saw blood in the section between the doors and a shell casing, like a bullet. We didn’t really see what was happening but they were giving her CPR,” said Cheyenne Kline, 26. “It freaked me out.”
Kline said cops showed neighbors a picture of the victim in an attempt to identify her. “They think she was running into our building. People never lock the door downstairs. [Detectives] think she was running into our building to escape somebody, probably,” she said.
The police are asking for the public’s help in finding the shooter. Seth Gottfried for NY PostAbout two hours later, a 22-year-old man was shot in the neck on Pacific Street near Atlantic Avenue in Weeksville, police said. The victim was squabbling with another man before being shot, cops said.
The victim was taken to Interfaith Medical Center in stable condition, police said Saturday. Authorities did not know what sparked the dispute, but described the assailant as wearing his hair in braids and clad in a gray jumpsuit and yellow hat.
