New York: Perleshje me arme ne mes te qytetit- 3 te vrare dhe dy te plagosur

 
New York: Perleshje me arme ne mes te qytetit- 3 te vrare dhe  dy te 
plagosur
 
 
 
 



BROOKLYN - NEW YORK CITY :Over 40 bullets were fired last  night in a Crown 
Heights shooting near the intersection of Franklin Avenue and  Park Place, 
leaving three people dead, injuring two NYPD officers, and putting a  bloody 
exclamation point on a very violent Labor Day weekend. Police say career  
criminal Leroy Webster, 32, emerged from a Park Place building around 9 p.m. 
and  opened fire on Eusi Johnson, 29, who was walking with his cousin. 
Johnson was  fatally shot in the neck, and bystander Denise Gay was shot in the 
head as she  sat on her stoop with her daughter. Gay, 56, died from her 
wounds.

 
 
 
     Officers who happened to be nearby because of the  West Indian Parade 
responded quickly, and Webster allegedly opened fire on them,  hitting 
Officer Omar Medina in the arm and Officer Avichaim Dicken, 29, whose  elbow was 
grazed by a bullet. Webster was fatally shot in the neck, "staggered a  
short way, bleeding profusely and died," CBS 2 reports. Both officers are listed 
 in stable condition, and at a press conference at the hospital last night, 
Mayor  Bloomberg called it "a senseless murder and a painful reminder of 
what happens  when elected officials in Washington fail to take the problem of 
illegal guns  seriously." 

 
 
    Asked about Webster's motivation, NYPD Commissioner Ray  Kelly told 
reporters, "Johnson and Webster got into a dispute. Why? We’re not  certain." 
The hail of gunfire drew local resident Alec Schierenbeck from his  home last 
night; he reported that "police set up numbered markers for shells - I  can 
spot numbers into the 40s." And witness Dana Kellstrom tells the Daily 
News,  "There must have been 50 or 60 shots fired. I saw two people shot down on 
the  ground. It was incredible. I ran for my life."

 
 
   The shooting followed an earlier burst of gunfire at the West  Indian 
Day parade, and put the cap on a bloody holiday weekend. According to the  
Wall Street Journal's count, there were 10 killed and more than 50 injured in  
violence this weekend.