Bed-Stuy Fatal Shooting Happened After 'Pointless' Brawl: Witness

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — The 29-year-old man fatally shot in a Bed-Stuy apartment on Tuesday had just gotten into a "pointless" group brawl, witnesses said. Maurice Lindsey was shot four times after his girlfriend got into a fight with two sisters and their brother, police said.

Lindsey and his girlfriend were leaving their apartment on the sixth floor of 1625 Fulton St. a little before 9 p.m. when the sisters and three men attacked them, witnesses told the New York Daily News.

"The guys were recording on their phones while (the girls) were dragging her, pulling her head by the hair," a witness told the Daily News. "She was screaming, telling them to get off of her. The guys were laughing, saying, 'Get her!'"

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According to the Daily News quoting cop sources, after the fight was broken up and Lindsey and his girlfriend were walking away from it, Lindsey responded to a comment that one of the men made. Then one of them shot him multiple times, and he stumbled into the wall and gasped for air, the witness said.

Lindsey's girlfriend told cops that the man, whom she identified as a brother of one of the two sisters, shot Lindsey multiple times while he was collapsed on the ground, the Daily News reported.

"It was a pointless fight, and now someone pointlessly lost their life," Tamecca Holloway, a 28-year-old neighbor who witnessed the argument before the fight, told the Daily News.

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