Six people were shot as a result of a dispute as thousands celebrated West Indian American Day in Brooklyn on Monday, according to police.
A high-ranking law enforcement source at the scene near Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue said that a gunman stood up on a parade barrier on the north side of Eastern Parkway service road and opened fire into the crowd. An NYPD spokesperson told NBC New York that the annual parade, one of the world’s largest gatherings of the Caribbean diaspora, doesn’t appear to be the target of the shooting that left at least one person in critical condition.
Top NYPD brass, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul were among those attending the parade on Monday.
An investigation is ongoing and more information is expected to be provided at an NYPD news briefing at 4 p.m. near the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn, where hundreds of thousands of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants have settled, began hosting the parade in the 1960s.
NBC New York’s Romney Smith reports.
