Crime scene investigators with the New York Police Department work at the scene where multiple people were killed and others injured in a shooting during J’ouvert festivities in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. He was transported to the hospital where police say he later died.
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News 12 Brooklyn will have continuing coverage of carnival celebrations this weekend and the West Indian American Day Parade on Monday. The event is often marred by violence.
Police said four people were shot, two of them fatally, during the Caribbean J’ouvert in Brooklyn.
Less than an hour earlier, another reveler, Tyreke Borel, 17, was shot in the chest and died at Kings County Hospital.
Tiarah Poyau was shot at close range above her right eye while at the overnight celebration with three friends at 4:15 a.m.at Franklin Ave. and Empire Blvd., police sources said.
A woman was also stabbed in the area, but police said she refused medical attention.
“NYPD doubled the number of police they had on duty”, he said. They also added security cameras and more light towers.
“This community will no longer tolerate this violence”.
The celebrations were marked by violence previous year when Carey Gabay, an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was fatally struck by a stray bullet.
Organizers say the early morning festivities that led to what is now J’ouvert started in the 1980s.
The tradition originated in the Caribbean and is celebrated in several North American cities with West Indian communities, including Boston and Toronto.
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A man has been arrested in the shooting death of a 22-year-old St. Johns University student during the J’Ouvert celebrations ahead of Monday’s West Indian Day Parade, police said.
