Two Amazon employees \u2013 including a woman described by kin as \u201can innocent bystander\u201d \u2013 were shot in a late-night burst of violence outside a Brooklyn facility over the weekend, cops and law-enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n
The woman, 25, took a bullet to the chest, while a 23-year-old man was struck in the shoulder around 11:15 p.m. outside the Amazon Fulfillment Center on Bay Street near Hicks Street in Red Hook, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both wounded workers were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dominique Dunlap, 25, was one of two workers shot outside the Amazon Fulfillment Center on Bay Street near Hicks Street in Red Hook on Sunday. Dominique Dunlap \/ Instagram<\/p>\n
The woman, identified by loved ones as Dominique Dunlap, was walking back to the facility after a trip to the deli, law-enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dunlap was \u201can innocent bystander [who] caught a bullet not meant for her\u201d and suffered \u201csignificant blood loss,\u201d according to a fund-raising page for her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough we are incredibly grateful that she survived, the bullet remains lodged in her body, and she now faces a difficult road to physical and emotional recovery,\u201d her family wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The male victim was bringing his girlfriend \u2013 also an Amazon worker \u2013 to the building from a bus stop when the shots rang out, sources said. CBS News New York<\/p>\n
Police are looking for two male suspects who fled in a white sedan, cops said. CBS News New York<\/p>\n
The shot male employee had been bringing his girlfriend \u2013 also an Amazon worker \u2013 to the building from a bus stop when the shots rang out, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The girlfriend was unharmed, according to the sources.<\/p>\n
Two male suspects fled in a white sedan, cops said.<\/p>\n
The motive for the violence remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Amazon employees \u2013 including a woman described by kin as \u201can innocent bystander\u201d \u2013 were shot in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[586,98,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,18392,3980,58],"class_list":["post-371360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-amazon","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-red-hook","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371360","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=371360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}