by Amy Furr
New York City saw at least three individuals shot overnight, and one was reportedly on his way to commit a shooting.
According to a New York Post article published Tuesday:
The slain 26-year-old man was riding a bike at Crown Street and Rogers Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, around 2 a.m. Tuesday when he was blasted in the head by a drive-by shooter in a dark-colored sedan, cops said.
The victim – who had been arrested a dozen times in the city – was wearing black rubber gloves when he was shot, and investigators believe he had planned to carry out a shooting with two other guys, police sources said.
He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The Post report noted the incident was believed to be gang-related.
Man shot dead in NYC while bicycling to shoot someone else: cops https://t.co/KLEf3A0HUV pic.twitter.com/eC8VwV4FYB
— New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2022
A few hours before, a man was shot in the buttocks and lower back in Manhattan and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. However, a motive regarding the incident was not immediately known.