CROWN HEIGHTS — Police are looking for a man they say shot at an occupied cab as it dropped off passengers on Pacific Street in the middle of the afternoon on the Fourth of July and his accomplice.
A 24-year-old cab driver told police he pulled up outside 1234 Pacific St. between Bedford and Nostrand avenues around 3 p.m. Monday to drop off multiple passengers.
As he dropped off his fares, a man fired at the cabbie’s vehicle, shattering the rear window of the car as well as the window of an empty van parked on the Crown Heights street, police said.
The gunman and another suspect, who police say provided him with the weapon, fled, police said. No one was injured during the shooting, the NYPD said. It was not clear if the individuals that exited the cab were the targets of the shooting.
On Wednesday, the police department released a video taken from surveillance footage of the suspected shooters.
Investigators believe the first suspect — last seen wearing a blue T-shirt, a backwards baseball cap and light colored sunglasses — handed the gun to the shooter just before the incident. The man who fired the weapon was last seen wearing black sunglasses, a black baseball cap and a dark colored T-shirt and sweatpants, police said.
The shooting was part of a rash of violent incidents in the city over the Fourth of July holiday, including a shootout at a Bedford-Stuyvesant barbeque that left seven wounded, a stabbing at a Harlem party that left a mother dead and her daughter injured and a shooting in Bushwick that hospitalized an 18-year-old.
Anyone with information in regards to the Pacific Street incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, (888) 57-PISTA (74782).
