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By HELEN FREUND
Last Updated: 1:51 AM, July 28, 2012
Posted: 1:51 AM, July 28, 2012
A 24-year-old man was shot outside of a diner in Williamsburg Friday night, fires sources and witnesses said.
An FDNY spokesman said they responded to a man shot several times in the leg outside of Kasia's Polish diner on Bedford Avenue near North 9th Street at around 10:45 p.m.
I heard pop pop pop and then looked outside and saw the man laying on the ground, said Henry Nek, 52, owner of the diner ...
Police said the man was not severely injured and was transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Witnesses said they saw two men running away from the scene immediately after the shots were fired ...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/man_injured_in_shooting_outside_YtzgdAWILUplaO47JeVfgI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Brooklyn
24-Year-Old Shot On Bedford Avenue Last Night
... According to the police no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing. What set off the shooting is not immediately clear but witnesses tell the New York Post that they saw two men running away from the scene immediately after the shots were fired. The NYPD would not confirm the number of suspects involved ...
Update: A neighbor who says he lives 30 feet from the scene of the shooting writes in to say that one of the shooting suspects was a local drug dealer: "Apparently his mom was carjacked for his Jaguar a few hours before the shooting. The victim? One of the carjackers. Who knows why he came back to the area." According to our tipster, the dealer is a nuisance who has "none too subtle handoffs to kids in car service town cars...he and his boys smoke weed outside their place three or four times every fucking day...Most of my neighbors, and myself, are glad this happened." ...
http://gothamist.com/2012/07/28/24-year-old_shot_on_bedford_avenue.php#photo-1