PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Two bullets from a shooting on Clarkson Avenue woke a woman and her sleeping son last week when they broke a window in their apartment, police said.
The 33-year-old woman and her young son were asleep inside 80 Clarkson Ave. between Flatbush and Bedford avenues around 3:15 a.m. on June 2 when the bullets flew into their bedroom, according to the NYPD.
The gunshots came from outside where police said an unknown man shot five rounds at a 25-year-old man who had been standing on the sidewalk in front of the building. The suspect did not hit his target and fled westbound toward Flatbush Avenue. No one, including the woman and her son, was injured in the shooting.
The shooting was one in four in the area this week, one of which resulted in an injury.
See below for details on those incidents and other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and East Flatbush:
The map above depicts only those blotter items compiled by DNAinfo New York within the date range indicated, not all crimes that took place in a given precinct. To see all previous crime blotters from this precinct, click here.
► A 24-year-old man said he was shot at during an attempted assault near the Ebbets Field apartment building on June 2, police said. The victim said he was outside of 1720 Bedford Ave. around 9:30 p.m. when two unknown men dressed in black came up to him and asked “what’s stackin’” then threatened him with a black handgun. The 24-year-old fled up nearby stairs and heard three shots behind him. The suspects fled in an unknown direction. The victim was uninjured in the shooting.
► A 27-year-old man was shot in the right leg in a drive-by shooting on Sterling Street on June 3, police said. The man was hanging out in front of 125 Sterling St. near Bedford Avenue around 9:15 p.m. when a black car drove up and someone inside shot at him, striking him once in the right leg. The car fled eastbound on Sterling Street. The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
► Police discovered three spent cartridges in front of 98 Montgomery St. after a witness reported seeing an unknown person shoot multiple times from a black sedan driving down the block around 5:10 p.m. on June 6. No one was injured in the shooting.
► Three teenage boys were arrested for attempting to rob and then assault an 18-year-old victim on June 2. Police said the victim was standing in front of 811 Rutland Road around 4:14 p.m. then the group came up to him, asked him for the time then said “run your pockets.” The 18-year-old ran away from the three suspects, who chased him and threw a hard object at his head. A nearby police officer caught up with the three teenagers, ages 17, 16 and 16, who were arrested a short time later.
► A 23-year-old man was arrested for assaulting a man on Flatbush Avenue before stealing his bicycle, police said. The altercation took place around 12:30 p.m. on June 3 in front of 661 Flatbush Ave. near Hawthorne Street. The victim told police the man punched him, knocked him to the ground and kicked his face repeatedly before making off with his $500 bike. Police caught up with the man soon afterwards, arrested him and recovered the bicycle.
► A 27-year-old man was sexually assaulted on his way home around 3 a.m. on June 6, police said. The man had just exited a cab on Eastern Parkway near Troy Avenue when an unknown man approached him, pulled him into an alley and forced him to perform oral sex. The Anti-Violence Project put out an alert about the incident this week based on a first report by the New York Post, which indicated the suspect also stole cash from the victim during the assault; however, the NYPD's record of the incident included no information about a robbery.
