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Police Detain 24-Year-Old After Easter Sunday Shooting Outside Brooklyn Deli

Detectives are reviewing surveillance video to determine a motive.

Overview

  • Gunfire outside a deli at 2961 Fulton St. in Cypress Hills left a 30-year-old man and a 50-year-old man shot multiple times.
  • Both men were taken to Brookdale University Medical Center in critical condition, though one outlet later reported the 30-year-old was pronounced dead.
  • NYPD sources said a 24-year-old person of interest was taken into custody and a firearm was recovered.
  • Officers from the 75th Precinct secured a large crime scene and documented numerous shell casings beneath the elevated J train platform.
  • Surveillance video published by the New York Post shows a man firing repeatedly at the two victims, and police say the motive remains unknown.