CROWN HEIGHTS — A series of shootings and a slashing occurred during the predawn celebration of J’Ouvert this week, adding to violence that included two fatal shootings on the parade route that killed 22-year-old Tiarah Poyau and 17-year-old Tyreke Borel.
The 71st Precinct crime blotter for the week shows a handful of other non-fatal violent incidents during the celebration, typically observed from midnight until daybreak on the morning before the West Indian Day Parade in Flatbush and Crown Heights.
On the official J’Ouvert parade route, a 22-year-old woman was slashed in the back by an unknown object around 4:00 a.m. on the corner of Flatbush and Ocean avenues, a block away from where Borel was shot just 10 minutes before. She was treated on the scene and released with minor injuries, police said.
Less than an hour later, an unknown person fired multiple shots at the car of a 28-year-old man driving and listening to music on Winthrop Street between Rogers and Nostrand avenues at 4:43 a.m., he told police. Officers found four spent shell casings on the ground at that location. No one was injured during the shooting.
At 6:40 a.m., a 20-year-old man was injured in a shooting that took place after he tried to break up a fight between an unknown man and woman, police said. The altercation took place in front of 251 Clarkson Ave. The man was shot once in the right leg and hospitalized for treatment.
Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and East Flatbush include:
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► A 31-year-old man was arrested for robbing a 22-year-old woman at knifepoint at Nostrand and Lefferts avenues at 1:42 a.m. on Sept. 1. The woman was walking home when the man pulled a knife on her and grabbed her purse containing $50, then fled on foot. The victim identified the man to police a short time later and he was arrested. The woman was uninjured in the robbery.
► A 33-year-old man said he was walking along Troy Avenue and Rutland Road at 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 2 when he felt a pain in his left calf and realized he’d been shot. He drove to Kings County Hospital where he was treated for a non-life-threatening wound.
► A teacher at P.S. 221 at 791 Empire Blvd. reported that an unknown man walked into the school around 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 2, entered a classroom and threw a Macbook Air laptop out of a window. The laptop, worth $900, was destroyed.
► A 52-year-old man was arrested for threatening a 41-year-old man with a large knife following an argument between the two men. The altercation took place on Lincoln Road between Rogers and Nostrand avenues around 5:35 p.m. on Sept. 5. No one was injured.
► A 20-year-old woman was mugged of her cellphone and purse during the West Indian Day Parade on Sept. 5 — but later got her phone back from the man who stole it from her after she contacted him through the “Find My iPhone” app, police said. The woman was walking through a large crowd around the parade at Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway at 5:20 p.m. when the man snatched her purse off her arm and fled on foot. A couple of hours later, she sent a message on the app and the suspect returned her phone, but not her purse or money. The suspect has not been arrested.
