WILLIAMSBURG — Police are on the lookout for two suspects who shot a Hasidic man in his stomach, then laughed at him as he lay bleeding on a quiet residential street in South Williamsburg early Tuesday morning.
Laughter Followed Shooting of Hasidic man
WILLIAMSBURG — Police are on the lookout for two suspects who shot a Hasidic man in his stomach, then laughed at him as he lay bleeding on a quiet residential street in South Williamsburg early Tuesday morning.
Witnesses described a shocking scene, where two men got out of a white car parked on Driggs Avenue near S. Ninth Street at 12:15 am and shot Burech Halberstam, 25, a Satmar man, in his abdomen as he was talking on his cellphone.
“After they shot him, they were laughing,” said one witness, who declined to give his name. “This is a normal thing in New York City.”
First responders from the private Hatzolah ambulance corps picked up the victim and drove him to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, where he remains in stable condition after surgery. A police source said that officers had questioned the victim for details about his assailants, but he has only identified them as Hispanic men.
Witnesses say the men returned to the vehicle and drove down Driggs Avenue, but another witness drove after them, following them to Berry Street. The men waved a gun and the Samaritan circled back to the scene of the shooting.
Police found the alleged getaway car on Jefferson Avenue near Franklin Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant about an hour after the crime.
Police have not determined whether the shooting was a hate crime, though several witnesses suggested it was.
Community members led by United Jewish Organization President Rabbi David Niederman and Councilman Steve Levin (D–Williamsburg) rallied on Tuesday afternoon to denounce the shooting.
Niederman offered a $5,000 reward and begged witnesses or people with information about the suspects to come forward to the police.
“This reward is to send a message – when you commit a crime, we will get after you and you will be caught,” said Niederman.
Councilwoman Letitia James (D–Fort Greene) echoed these sentiments, calling snitching a “badge of honor” and the duty of witnesses to “snitch for your community.”
“It is a matter of hours before the subjects in this case will be caught,” said James.
Niederman did not play the race card, suggesting that the shooting was not a hate crime but merely the work of two “bad apples.”
Mennzz
Obama & Bloomberg, When you take away law-abiding citizen’s guns because you think it would stop guns from getting into the hands of criminals, your wrong.
Criminals will always get there guns from the black market, so unless you do something to get rid of the black market, there will still be guns in NYC/America.
So basically, you disarm the law-abiding citizen, and make it easier for the criminals to harm the citizen because they have no fear that they might get shot by a citizen, because they know that the citizen can’t own a gun.
Criminals love gun control/laws, it makes their job easier. (Use common sense Bloomberg, Obama, and all other anti-gun people).
Sarah
To Mennzz: Yeah thats an ignorant comment. Because Im sure a Chossid would be carrying a gun (if not in the Military or something)
Patrol groups desperately needed !!!
They should set up groups like what we have in CH , such as Shomrim to patrol the streets at all hours of the night .
ch resident
they do have shomrim
its sad what happedned but you cant point fingers at anyone but the attackers
dont understand really
idont get it , basicaly the guy is okay?
satmar
i suggest that satmar shomrim should do there job and hunt thoes fellows down and when they do boy thoes shooteres wont be laughing then more like let your imaginenations do the rest
To Sarah
Why, is it a sin for a Chossid to carry a gun to protect himself/his family? What, if he’s a chossid, he should let himself get shot or pray for the police to come, rather than taking steps to defend himself? Where is the Halacha that says chassidim may not carry guns for protection? Doesn’t it say it the Torah we have to be able to protect ourselves from those who rise against us? I think it’s your comment that’s ignorant, not Mennzz’s.
WOW HALBERSTAM AGAIN??
same last name as the young boy from Crown Heights who was shot in the riots!! are they related??
so sad
chani
BS“D
B”H, it was stated in the news video that he is in stable condition.
Not afraid to use it
I live outside NY where we have open carry laws. However, I went one step further and got a permit to carry concealed. I just this week started taking classes on how to pull my gun and get it ready to fire in under 3 seconds. I totally agree with Menzz. It is a well known fact that the areas with the strictest gun control laws also have the highest crime rates. If Bloomberg were so dumb, he would ease up on your gun control laws, and let legal citizens not only own guns, but carry them. In my state, criminals think twice before doing an armed robbery, because they have no idea if the person they are attempting to rob is armed or not.
NRA
How come only cops and criminals are allowed to have guns in NYC?