Murder Toll Rises In Brooklyn
BY SARAH GARLAND - Staff Reporter of the Sun
August 1, 2007
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/59561
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North Brooklyn's murder toll is steadily ticking upward, with a
shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant early yesterday morning leaving a
33-year-old man dead and a 25-year-old man wounded. In a separate
incident yesterday afternoon, a man was shot in the leg near Kingston
Avenue and Fulton Street, also in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.
As of last week, the homicide rate had risen 13% in the 10 precincts
that make up North Brooklyn; the city as a whole is in a downward trend.
In the northern half of Brooklyn there have been 78 murders this
year, compared with 69 during the same period last year. The number of
shooting victims in the area was also up by about 13%, while murder
arrests were down 10% from the same period last year. In
Bedford-Stuyvesant, murders were up 10%.
The rest of the city has seen its homicide rate drop by 15% this year compared with the first half of 2006.
Police said the two men in the first incident were shot outside 505
Franklin Ave. at about 1:30 a. m. The 33-year-old victim, who was not
identified, was shot multiple times in the torso, and died at Kings
County Hospital, according to police.
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