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Woman Killed, Three Wounded in Clarkson Avenue Shooting

By  Leslie Albrecht and Dan Rivoli | August 30, 2012 10:10pm | Updated on August 31, 2012 8:53am

A woman was shot and killed and three others were wounded in a shooting in Flatbush on August 30, 2012.
A woman was shot and killed and three others were wounded in a shooting in Flatbush on August 30, 2012.
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FLATBUSH — A 29-year-old woman was shot and three others, including a 13-year-old boy, were wounded in a wild shooting on Clarkson Avenue Thursday night, the NYPD said.

The gunfire erupted about 9:15 p.m. on Clarkson Avenue between Flatbush and Bedford avenues.

The woman and the boy were shot in the back, though the child's wound appeared to be from a bullet graze, police said.

Both were taken to Kings County Hospital, where the woman died. The boy was in stable condition, police said.

"There's still blood on the side of the street. It's very surreal," said Serah Jordan, 52, who has lived on the block for two years. "It's like an episode of CSI, except it's all actually happening right outside your house."

A 29-year-old man suffered a graze wound to his torso while another victim, a 26-year-old man, was shot in the arm and buttocks.

Both victims went to Kings County Hospital by private means, police said, but their conditions were not immediately known.

None of the victims have been identified.

No one has been arrested.

The teenager was the latest children wounded or killed in gun violence this summer.

Ronald Wallace, a 13-year-old who boy lived in Brownsville, died from a gunshot wound to the back Aug. 24.

In Brownsville, a 2-year-old girl and two teenage boys were among six victims wounded in a shooting on July 30. In August, four teenagers were shot on a Brownsville playground.

On National Night Out Against Crime on August 7, four teenagers were injured in shootings in The Bronx and Harlem.

And, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Isaiah Rivera, 3, was shot in the leg in a Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, playground.