Three Brooklyn schools get shelter-in-place advisory after deadly McLaughlin Park shooting

Police are investigating after a 24-year-old man died from a gunshot wound on Tuesday afternoon in McLaughlin Park, in Downtown Brooklyn.

According to officials, a 911 caller reported the shooting a little after 2 p.m. The man had been hit in the torso. Emergency medical workers brought him to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, and he died there. Police are withholding his name until his family is notified.

What police have said about the McLaughlin Park shooting

Investigators have not released a motive. They also have not said whether a suspect is being sought or whether anyone has been detained. The investigation is ongoing.

Later that afternoon, crime scene tape went up around the ball field in the park’s northeast corner, by Cathedral Place and Flatbush Avenue. Elsewhere the park was full. Parents pushed kids on the swings, and students from New York City College of Technology, a short walk away, chatted after class. Dozens of others shot hoops or hung out.

Shelter-in-place advisory for schools near the park

According to the NYPD, three schools in the area received a shelter-in-place advisory after the shooting: Westinghouse High School, Science Skills Center High School for Science and the Adams Street Educational Campus.

A number of young people in the park said the shooting did not surprise them. One of them, 21-year-old Christina Josiah, said fights happen there often and put the blame on the surroundings rather than the park. “It’s not even about this area. It’s about the things around the area,” she said.