Cops: Man, 30, dead, two injured after shooting in Roosevelt
One man was shot and killed and two others were injured early Sunday on a Roosevelt street when someone in a vehicle pulled up and opened fire, police said.
A 30-year-old man was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest and pronounced dead, Det. Lt. Richard LeBrun said Sunday morning at a news conference near the scene of the shooting. On Tuesday, police identified him as Shamel Williams, of Jamaica, Queens.
A 26-year-old man was shot in the left knee and a 21-year-old man was shot in the lower back, LeBrun said.
The identities of the injured victims were not released.
LeBrun said the three were standing together on West Fulton Avenue shortly after midnight when a vehicle pulled up alongside them. The victims and a male in the vehicle got into a verbal dispute and someone inside started shooting, LeBrun said.
After the shooting, which occurred not far from a house party, the vehicle drove off in an unknown direction. Police were continuing to search for the shooter Sunday.
Officers responded after receiving multiple calls of shots fired through "ShotSpotter" notification and other calls reporting a disturbance, police said.
Nassau police responded to a shooting near a Roosevelt residence early Sunday that left one man dead and two men injured, authorities said. Credit: Paul Mazza
The relationship between Williams and the shooter as well as the nature of the dispute were also unknown, LeBrun said.
Residents on nearby Hudson Avenue said Sunday morning that a shooting was unusual for that section of the neighborhood.
Fredis Umana was standing in his front yard at the corner of Hudson Avenue and Elysian Terrace, which was closed for a police investigation, watching the police activity.
In the past, Umana said, when the house on nearby West Fulton Avenue has had a party, he has seen inebriated people in the street and fights have broken out.
Jasmine Mitchell, also a Hudson Avenue resident, said she too is familiar with the parties thrown at the West Fulton Avenue house. Like Umana, she doesn't hear about violence in the neighborhood much, although she recalled one shooting a few years ago.
"Coming from here, you're kind of used to it," Mitchell said. But that area of Roosevelt has been quiet, she added. "It's kind of surprising and sad."
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