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Suspect's Gun Jammed as He Shot at Mother and Son in Crown Heights: Sources

71st Precinct Attempted Assault Suspect
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Police are looking for a man who shot at a 30-year-old mother and her son as they visited her aunt in Crown Heights over the weekend, the NYPD and sources said.

The woman and her son were walking into the aunt’s apartment on Union Street near Franklin Avenue around 4 p.m. on Saturday when the male suspect followed them through the front door as they were buzzed in, sources said.

The man continued to trail them as they walked up the stairs of the apartment building to the second-floor apartment, police said. Then in the stairwell, the woman saw the man take out a silver firearm from his pants, cock it and try to shoot at her, sources said.

But the gun jammed, and she and her son were able to flee into the aunt’s apartment, police said. The man fired a total of eight shots into the apartment door, with most hitting the walls and one exiting a window, sources said; neither the woman nor her son were injured in the assault.

The police department released a video of the suspect on Saturday, showing a man walking through the building wearing a black jacket over a white shirt with a black skull cap, carrying a case or package of some kind.

Police describe the suspect as approximately 35 to 40 years old and standing between 6-foot and 6-foot-2.

The relationship between the suspect and his victims is unknown and police have not yet determined a motive for the crime. The investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS or for Spanish (888) 57-PISTA (74782).