The 40-year-old was gunned down on Sterling Place in Crown Heights just after 1 a.m. on Sunday.
NEW YORK -- Detectives in Brooklyn are trying to figure out who shot and killed a man in Crown Heights early Sunday morning.The killing, one of many recent shootings, has rocked the community. CBS New York's Derick Waller spoke with concerned residents.Neighbors said they are alarmed by the recent uptick in violent crime.Just off Franklin Avenue on Sterling Place is where the NYPD Crime Scene Unit was operating Sunday night, hours after 40-year-old Lavel Fraiser was gunned down.
That's why police started posting flyers asking for any information.'I heard four gunshots,' neighbor Phoebe Pinder said. I was up. I was sitting in there and I was like, 'That couldn't have been gunshots' because we just had a shooting like just recently.'Only two blocks away, deli worker Nazim Berry died after a customer shot him in the head on Feb. 26.Then, three days later, 13-year-old Troy Gill was shot and killed walking home from a Brooklyn Nets game.
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