Gun Incidents Leave 1 Dead, 1 Arrested, 2 Kids Injured

Two separate incidents Brooklyn resulted in the death of a 27-year-old man on a Brownsville sidewalk, a nine-year-old girl wounded, and a 13-year-old boy clinging to life. Police are investigating whether the shot that struck the nine-year-old girl in the arm yesterday was related to the shooting that killed Robert Morgan two blocks away in Brownsville.

The girl was apparently hit by an errant bullet that crashed through a window in a family's fifth-floor apartment. Although the girl was in shock following the shooting, she is in stable condition.

Meanwhile, Jamar Bethune was arrested and charged in the shooting of a young teenager on Thursday. The separate shooting on Thursday, also in Brooklyn, was reportedly the result of a teenager "horsing around" with a gun. The 13-year-old victim, Marquis Perez, was visiting friends with his cousin, when 18-year-old Jamar Bethune produced a pistol and placed it against the boy's temple; Bethune then pulled the trigger. Doctors at Kings County Hospital said that the boy is alive, but brain dead.

Bethune was arrested and charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and criminal possession of a weapon. Police are still investigating whether the incident was an accident or not. The victim's cousin claimed that Bethune did not know the gun was loaded. WNBC news reports that Bethune has been arrested twice in the past year on drug and weapons charges.