CROWN HEIGHTS — Two men were shot in front of a Union Street apartment building early Friday morning, police said.
Officers responded to 1004 Union St., near Franklin Avenue, and found the two men wounded outside the Crown Heights building at about 2:15 a.m., according to the NYPD.
One of the men, a 33-year-old, had a gunshot wound to his left foot, police said. The other, a 24-year-old man, suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the lower abdomen and legs.
Both were taken to Kings County Hospital, police said. The 33-year-old is in stable condition; the 24-year-old is still undergoing treatment in critical condition as of Friday afternoon.
No suspects have been identified and there are no arrests, police said.
The incident is the third shooting off Franklin Avenue in less than two months. In March, 22-year-old Marlon Shuffler was shot and killed two blocks away. The same day, March 11, two teenagers were wounded by gunfire at Franklin Avenue and President Street, located a block from Friday’s shooting.
So far this year, trends on shootings in Crown Heights’ precincts are mixed. In the 71st Precinct, where the Union Street incident took place, shootings are down 50 percent through April 17 of this year (the most recent available data), from four incidents last year to two recorded shootings so far in 2015.
In the 77th Precinct — which covers the neighborhood north of Eastern Parkway, including the area where Shuffler was shot and killed — shootings through April 17 are up 33 percent, from six shooting incidents last year to eight so far this year.
