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Man Killed in Crown Heights Triple Shooting, NYPD Says

By  Trevor Kapp and Aidan Gardiner | September 2, 2016 7:56am 

 Akaijah Evelyn was gunned down on St. Marks Avenue in a possible drug feud, police said.
Akaijah Evelyn was gunned down on St. Marks Avenue in a possible drug feud, police said.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — A man was killed and two others wounded when they were fired upon on a Brooklyn street Thursday night, police said.

Akaijah Evelyn, 37, and two other men, 36 and 31, were shot outside 777 St. Marks Ave., near New York Avenue, about 10:30 p.m., an NYPD spokesman said Friday morning.

The suspect or suspects may have driven up in a dark sedan and opened fire as part of a drug dispute, the spokesman said.

Evelyn, who lived nearby on St. Marks Avenue, was hit in the chest and pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital, police said.

The 31-year-old was hit in the right thigh while the 36-year-old was hit in the left foot, police said. Both were listed in stable condition at Kings County Hospital, police said.

There were no immediate arrests, police said.