Carroll Gardens and East Flatbush shootings leave 2 dead over weekend, NYPD says
A potential robbery victim and a dollar-van driver were killed in separate shootings in Brooklyn over the weekend, according to police, who said they were still searching for suspects in both incidents on Monday.
NYPD officials said 23-year-old Jordan Dillard was shot several times in his torso around 2:45 a.m. on Saturday inside Carroll Park between Court and Smith streets in Carroll Gardens.
First responders who arrived at the scene took Dillard to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to officials.
Police said he lived in NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses, less than a mile from where he was killed. The NYPD did not immediately have any description of a possible suspect and said it was looking into whether Dillard was the target of a robbery.
On Sunday, just before 1 p.m. police responded to Utica Avenue near Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush and found 25-year-old Johanci Chapman shot in his arm behind the wheel of a dollar van, according to officials.
Police said Chapman had been arguing with another dollar-van driver, who pulled out a gun and fired. Chapman was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died of his injuries.
The other driver fled in his van, and the NYPD said it was still looking for him on Monday.
The incidents happened in neighborhoods with vastly different amounts of gun violence, police data shows.
According to Gothamist’s analysis of NYPD reports, nine people were shot and killed last year in the department’s
This is a developing story based on information from police and may be updated.
