Woman dies in shooting near B'klyn school

Someone with a gun opened fire on a street as students were let out of a school Friday in Brownsville, Brooklyn, killing a parent who was trying to protect children from harm and injuring an 11-year-old girl and another parent, police and school officials said.

Police were seeking the shooter.

The shootings happened about 2:30 p.m., and police were investigating whether the shooter fired from a nearby rooftop where shell casings were found.

Zurana Horton, 34, was struck in the face and chest and died at the scene. A 31-year-old woman was hit in an arm and the chest and was hospitalized. The girl, a sixth-grader at the school, injured one of her arms and had a graze wound on her cheek. None of the victims were related, police said.

The victims were on a street corner at the back of the elementary school when the gunshots rang out, a Department of Education spokeswoman said.

It's unclear how many shots were fired. Seven shell casings from a 9-mm semiautomatic pistol were found on the nearby rooftop. Five other shell casings were found on the sidewalk in the front of that building, police said.

Three men were seen fleeing the scene, and police were questioning at least one person. -- AP