Two men died Monday in separate attacks in Flatbush, Brooklyn, with their assailants still on the loose, police said.
In the first deadly encounter about 10:21 a.m., police responded to a 911 call of a male stabbed on Flatbush Ave., finding a 26-year-old male victim stabbed in the chest. The man, who was not identified pending notification of his family, was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died.
“It was an argument in the middle of the street with another male, who stabbed him in the the chest with a knife and fled,” a police source told the Daily News.
Around 4:06 p.m., police rushed to the scene of an assault on E. 32nd St. in East Flatbush, discovering a 28-year-old man with a single shotgun wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police sources said the victim was involved in a fight with two males: one wearing a read bubble jacket, with a black hoodie and black jeans, and the other dressed in a gray hoodie and black jeans. Both assailants fled on foot, the sources said.
“His body was in the street behind a car,” a 35-year-old man who lives on the same block and witnessed the aftermath told The News.
“He was shot in the head. He was definitely dead right there in the street,” the man said. “His mother was over there wailing. Other family members were trying to calm her down.”
“Terrible, just terrible,” the neighbor said.
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