Crime & Safety
Cops Search For Bike-Riding Gunman In Crown Heights: NYPD
Two men rode away on bikes after one of them fired a gun into the street, hitting a car with four people inside, police said.
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Cops are searching for a pair of bike-riding suspects who were involved in a shooting last week in Crown Heights.
The two men, wanted on reckless endangerment charges, were on Buffalo Avenue near Sterling Place just before 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 when one of them fired a gun multiple times, police said.
The shots damaged a nearby driver's side window of a black sedan that had four men inside, police said. Nobody was injured in the incident.
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Both of the suspects rode away on their bicycles after the shooting, police said.
Police said the suspects both wore masks over their faces and black hooded sweaters, and that one of them wore red sneakers.
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Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
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