Bed-Stuy Bodega Shooting: 1 Man Dead, Bystander Wounded, Police Say

UPDATE, Wednesday, Sept. 28: Flatlands resident Neil Thompson, 38, who lived on East 59 St. near Ralph Ave., was identified as the deceased shooting victim, according to the NYPD.

Original story below.

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — Two men were shot, one of them fatally, inside the bodega at Tompkins Avenue and Hart Street early Wednesday morning, according to the New York City Police Department (NYPD).

Police said they responded to a 911 call of a shooting inside the "3 Stars Deli and Grocery" at 164 Tompkins Ave. around 7:30 a.m.

When officers arrived, they found "a 38-year-old male with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and a 64-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the torso," according to a statement issued by the NYPD.

The 38-year-old victim was rushed a few blocks north to Woodhull Hospital, where he died from his gunshot wounds, police said. The 64-year-old victim — believed to be a bystander and not a target — survived the shooting, police said, and was recovering "in stable condition" Wednesday at Kings County Hospital in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.

No arrests had been made by late morning, and the investigation was ongoing, police said.

Police were withholding the identity of the 38-year-old until his family had been notified of his death.

Wednesday morning's fatal bodega shooting occurred within the NYPD's 79th Precinct, which covers the eastern half of Bed-Stuy. Just one day earlier, at Tompkins and Vernon, gunfire again rang out in the neighborhood when cops from the 79th cops shot a wanted man who was allegedly trying to hit them with his car.

Overall, however, shootings in the 79th are way down this year compared to last: According to official police statistics, through mid-September, the number of shooting victims within the precinct had dropped 71 percent compared to last year.

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