There was a stabbing Friday night around 11:00 on the east side of Coney Island Avenue between Ditmas Avenue and Ditmas Avenue (police tape was here). There was caution tape wrapped around a few sign posts, so we pulled over and asked a rookie police officer what happened. He told us there had been a fight."All this tape for a fight?" I asked.
"Yeah," he said.
"Did anyone get hurt?" Patrick asked.
"Well, someone got cut," he said hesitantly.
"Someone was stabbed?" Patrick asked.
"Yeah," the officer said very casually.
When we got to Cortelyou and Coney Island Avenue, there were three or four police cars and lots of officers. (most had pulled off by the time we snapped this picture) I went over to the officers and said I lived nearby and wanted to know what was going on. This time I got a classic Brooklyn cop who didn't hold back information. He asked me where I lived and then told me that someone was stabbed a block away and they caught up to a guy who fit the description of the stabbing suspect; however, he came up negative so now they were letting him go.
This brings the count to three stabbing incidents in four days in a relatively small vicinity. Early Tuesday a man was stabbed at the Newkirk Avenue 2, 5 station and the next day two men were stabbed at East 21st and Ditmas.
2 comments:
The Newkirik 2, 5 is probably more than a mile away from there in a different neighborhood (East Flatbush). You might as well be talking about a crime in Borough Park or Sunset Park.
Uh, no. The 2,5 stop at Newkirk Ave is actually in the heart of Flatbush, not East Flatbush. East Flatbush starts at New York Ave. The 2,5 stop is a mile away from this stabbing on CIA. Sunset Park is over 2 miles away. Borough Park is also 2 miles away.
pwned.
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