Five people were shot during the West Indian American Day parade in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday in an attack that police said wasn't random.
Five people were shot at a parade in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday when a man began firing into the crowd of the West Indian American Day festival parade, with two in critical condition. 'One person intentionally going after a group of people tried to ruin the day for everybody, and we’re not going to let that happen,' NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said in a news conference after the shooting.
We have multiple cops working very hard this weekend, very hard today to keep this community and to keep this parade safe, and we’ll be out here until the wee hours of the morning doing just that. Working hard, keeping this community safe.' Police are still searching for the suspect, whom Chell described as a Black man in his 20s with a slim build who was wearing a black shirt with paint stains and a black bandanna.
know this parade has a history of violence, but things have been peaceful in recent years, and we got to hoping that there was enough security in place that maybe that was over with,' she added.
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