A young man was killed, and another man was left in critical condition after a relentless gunman shot the pair several times on a Brooklyn street on Easter Sunday, according to harrowing surveillance footage and authorities.<\/p>\n
Police discovered a 30-year-old man and a 50-year-old man both riddled with gunshot wounds after they responded to reports of a shooting just before 6 p.m. outside a building on Fulton Street between Cleveland and Elton Street in Cypress Hills, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
A 30-year-old man and a 50-year-old man are in critical condition after a shooting in Cypress Hills on Sunday. David Burns\/@FD4D for NY Post<\/p>\n
Both unidentified men were taken to Brookdale University Medical Center in critical condition. The 30-year-old was later pronounced dead, police said. <\/p>\n
A person of interest in the shooting was also taken into custody, cops added.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage obtained by The Post captured two men standing on the sidewalk below the elevated J train subway platform near a group of about three men.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage obtained by The Post captured two men standing on the sidewalk below the elevated J train subway platform near a group of about three men. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
Disturbing surveillance footage captured the moment a man fired multiple gunshots at a 30-year-old man and a 50-year-old man on Fulton Street. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
Moments after one of the men appears to say something to the crew, a man in a gray jacket and light pants whips out a gun and chillingly fires several shots at him and the other man he was standing near, according to the clip.<\/p>\n
The shooter continued to pump bullets into the victims even as they lay motionless on the sidewalk, the disturbing footage showed.<\/p>\n
One man dressed in dark clothing and white sneakers started walking away from the group the moment the shooter took out the gun.<\/p>\n
A person of interest in the shooting was taken into custody. David Burns\/@FD4D for NY Post<\/p>\n
Photos later captured stunned onlookers at the scene as authorities swarmed the area and marked a large number of shell casings.<\/p>\n
It is unclear what sparked the gunfire or the men\u2019s affiliation with each other. The investigation remains ongoing, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man was killed, and another man was left in critical condition after a relentless gunman shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,98,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-186737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-shootings","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}