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Double Homicide on Utica Avenue and Union Street

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A father and his teenage son were shot dead in a Brooklyn bodega Wednesday night after they resisted a pair of armed robbers.

The shooting happened at around 9:45 p.m. in the borough’s Crown Heights section.

More in the Extended Article.

Police say 50-year-old Mohammed Monsoor Abuzaid was killed immediately. His 18-year-old son, Abdul, was pronounced dead later at a hospital. A third person was struck with a firearm during the attack, but was not seriously hurt.

Police were looking for the two robbers, who fled the scene.

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10 Comments

  • still a skeptic

    The cops won’t catch those shooters either. They don’t care…coupla Arabs, coupla Jews…makes no difference to them.

  • Yitz

    There has to be just as big an outcry over this as when a crime is committed against one of us. Think about it, this is violence that it taking place in our neighborhood and it puts us all at risk.

  • chr

    This could have been any store owner. Even with all the police, it doesn’t seem the crime rate has gone down.

  • josh

    i take this incident very seriously it should effect every citisen off crown heights crime has no face or color we should unite to fight crime, what happend to comunity policeing ,

  • Neighbor

    I was right there! I live around the corner. When I saw the commotion I asked a black guy what happened and he casually said “oh, someone just got themselves shot up” as if he were talking about buying an apple! The crime rate is insane and we’re acclimating!

  • resident

    i leave on union and utica, this is very scary for us. we didn’t hear about gun shot for a long time but this one is the second one after the one on president and utica.
    my son turned bar mitzvah now he had to davened with a minyan
    he is going every night to the shul around the corner from there
    don’t know what to do?
    we see so much police around here and it didn’t bother the killer to walk in and walk out, this is really insane…but i guess there is nothing to do just to davened to hashem to continue protecting us because the presence of the police doesn’t help!:(

  • CSH

    I agree with previous commentator. With the heavy police presence in our neighborhood this couldn’t have been prevented? There are dozens of cops roaming the neighborhood and the murderers got away?!?

  • Bob Steele

    Ding dong if u notice the major police activity has shifted to fri-sundaynight. Yes u may see police during the week, but they normally come out during the late afternoon hours, the police activity that had become the norm during the nightime hours mon-thrus, during jan-feb has been decreased during the evenings in CH ask Kelly why.

  • irt

    if there was no police evrybody would be getting shot so think before u say something