{"id":323487,"date":"2026-08-17T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323487\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:04:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-were-killing-each-other-crown-heights-shooting-comes-just-before-1-year-mark-of-lounge-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323487\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Were Killing Each Other Crown Heights Shooting Comes Just Before 1 Year Mark Of Lounge Mass Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Monday marks one year since the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2025\/08\/17\/3-men-dead-8-injured-after-shooting-at-crown-heights-lounge\/1FUb2DTxfXaiHd5N7gDaO2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taste of the City Lounge mass shooting<\/a> where three people died and multiple people were injured.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The anniversary falls just one day after a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/newyork.news12.com\/woman-killed-man-wounded-in-crown-heights-shooting-near-ooh-la-la-lounge-and-bar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly shooting<\/a> happened outside a bar on Bergen Street and Howard Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a 33-year-old mother of five was killed and a 34-year-old man was injured after gunfire erupted on a crowded Crown Heights street early Sunday morning, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to a 911 call reporting a person shot near the intersection of Bergen Street and Howard Avenue at 2:23 a.m. Detectives say gunfire erupted during an argument among a crowd of about 100 people gathered near Ooh La La Lounge and Bar. Residents like Cynthia Bowman say the shots were so loud it woke her up.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cLike firecrackers, boom boom boom boom. I didn\u2019t know what it was,&#8221; said Bowman.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When officers arrived, they found 33-year-old Sofronie Hartzog with a gunshot wound to the back and the 34-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4310.jpeg\"   alt=\"IMG_4310.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">EMS rushed Hartzog to Brookdale Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The male victim was taken by private means to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors like Jillian Charles say it&#8217;s tragic.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI think it\u2019s just sad because in our community that\u2019s all we\u2019re seeing is crime on crime. We\u2019re just killing each other,&#8221; said Charles.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The shooting happened just a day before the one-year mark of the Taste of the City Lounge mass shooting in Crown Heights. Residents like Judith Ramos say it makes matters even worse.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI think it\u2019s overwhelming. It\u2019s a lot to unpack. It\u2019s a lot of grief. I think people can even be desensitized. It\u2019s really unfortunate. Something needs to change here because it\u2019s a beautiful neighborhood,&#8221; said Ramos.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Sunday&#8217;s shooting happened after an argument. Ruby Miller, an anti-violence advocate with Greater Direction, says these incidents can be avoided.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe try so hard to do things to make sure people have better ways to resolving conflicts. Unfortunately, we have a lot of work ahead of us,&#8221; said Miller.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As of Monday evening, investigators say no arrests have been made in connection with Sunday&#8217;s shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday marks one year since the Taste of the City Lounge mass shooting where three people died and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-323487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323487","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=323487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}