He’s Killed on Brooklyn Basketball Court
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A 22-year-old man died after he was shot on a Brooklyn basketball court, staggered to the park’s rest room and collapsed, police said Saturday.
Ellison Butler was standing with friends in Lincoln Terrace Park (AKA Rochester Park) in Crown Heights when shots rang out just before 8:30 p.m. Friday, witnesses told police.
Butler took a bullet to the chest, but managed to run off the court before he toppled to the ground inside a men’s room, police said.
A friend called 911 and paramedics rushed Butler to Kings County Hospital, police said. He died a short time later.
The motive for the shooting is unknown, police said.
Investigators canvassed the neighborhood looking for ballistics evidence and footage from nearby surveillance cameras.
Butler, who lived nearby, had several sealed prior arrests. Investigators are unsure if those crimes were connected to the shooting, a police source said.
Someone
I feel safer in Harlem…
Crown St
Now the Blacks will complain that all the cops & their towers are in Jew-town. The truth is, that park is dangerous & the cops probably don’t weant to go there.
valerie
2 shootings in one week. and this is with extra police patroling the street. imagine how bad it would be if there were no cops around? i dont even want to guess.
out of the neighborhood
I am out the neighborhood for 18 years now and we called it Lincoln Terrorist Park when I was growing up there.
35 yr in the hood
the cops know the truth , its bad over there . and they rather stay on kingston ave, look they want to live ,there faces r not protected , they know jews dont cary guns [ 4 now]
so they can stay alive to there 20 yr, hang out on kingston , give us a false feeling of hope and make the politicions happy , @ the end of the day . hashem yerachaim
m.s.
i live over there and i sometimes go there. i shouldnt really go there anymore.