BROOKLYN — Two men were in serious condition on Monday evening, after being shot near the intersection of Bond and Wyckoff streets in Gowanus, fire officials said.
The shooting took place on the basketball court of the Gowanus Houses just feet away from a crowded playground, police and witnesses at the scene said.
A resident who was in her apartment at the time of the shooting said she heard around ten gunshots fired in rapid succession.
"Pa, pa, pa, pa...When I looked out I saw someone on the ground," a 54-year-old resident who has lived in the Gowanus Houses her whole life said. "I came out to check..to make sure it's none of my relatives...because I knew my nephew was playing basketball."
"That's not normal," she said. "It was broad daylight."
Pictures taken by witnesses showed emergency workers attending to two victims. One showed a man with a cloth tourniquet wrapped around his ankle and blood soaking his sock. He wore athletic shorts and sneakers and lay sprawled out on the sidewalk covering his face.
Emergency workers took one man who had one gunshot wound to Lutheran Hospital and another man to Methodist Hospital, fire officials said.
Police at the scene said a third man was shot too and that none of the three injured suffered life-threatening injuries.
Concerned residents of the housing project milled in front of one of the buildings' entrances discussing the afternoon shooting.
"[Think about] all the little kids in the park playing," a woman exclaimed, who did not want to give her name.
