A suspect has been arrested for murder for shooting a 24-year-old man during a loud argument in a Brooklyn apartment building, police said Monday.
Yonathan Guzman, 22, is charged with murder and gun possession for the 2:05 a.m. Sunday shooting in the lobby of his building on Dorchester Road near E. 21st St. in Flatbush.
Guzman allegedly shot the victim in the upper body during the clash.
Medics rushed the victim to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved. His name has not yet been released.
A 20-year-old neighbor who lives in an apartment adjacent to the suspect’s unit described the hour-long clash that led to the shooting as “a drunk fight that went really wrong.”
“They were really loud,’ said the neighbor, who asked to be identified by her first name only, Isabel. “I heard kids crying, stuff breaking in there. I didn’t know what was going on.”
She called 911 as the fight escalated.
“I was just like, someone’s gonna get hurt,” she said. “There was just way too much commotion.”
When police got to the scene, she said, officers tried comforting the victim, telling him to breathe and assuring him medics were on the way.
Guzman was taken into custody as a person of interest at the scene and charged later in the day Sunday. His arraignment was pending in Brooklyn Criminal Court Monday.
