MetroTech Shooting Shuts Down Brooklyn Station, Cops Say

DOWNTOWN, BROOKLYN — For the second time in just two weeks, cops swarmed Downtown Brooklyn on Friday after a shooting near MetroTech Center, police said.

Police rushed to the Jay Street/MetroTech subway station at 12:30 p.m. after getting a call that shots were fired in the station, an NYPD spokesperson said.

Police confirmed that one shot had been fired and found a shell casing at the station, officials said. They had taken five people into custody for questioning and were still investigating around 1:30 p.m., an NYPD spokesperson said.

There were no injuries from the shooting, the NYPD spokesperson said.

The shooting closed down part of the station while the cops investigated.

The shooting comes two weeks after someone shot a gun just a few blocks away at 5 MetroTech Center.

In that shooting, a hooded man fired a gun in the street and hit a 27-year-old man in the buttocks just after 12:30 p.m., police said. Police swarmed the neighborhood to look for the shooter, who they originally thought was a 60-year-old man they took into custody.

But that man was later released after cops discovered surveillance video of the shooting. They are still looking for the shooter, who ditched his gun in a trash can near the building.

That daylight shooting had at least one nearby building put on lockdown and also led to a car accident as cops rushed to the scene.

Police rushing to MetroTech got into a car accident in Clinton Hill on their way, hitting a civilian's car at Dekalb and Clinton avenues and flipping the civilian's car onto its side. The officers and the person in the other car were both hurt in the crash with non-life threatening injuries.

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