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Police-Involved Shooting in Brooklyn, 3 Injured

2008_08_bkyshoot.jpgEarly this morning, police shot a man who had fired at two other people in Bushwick. WNBC reports that when police responded to a call about shots fired, "they arrived to find a man with a gun trying to get inside a building on Central Avenue." The man refused to drop his gun and instead fired at the police, who returned fire. A witness told the Daily News there were two men involved with the shooting, "They weren't yelling or screaming, they just started shooting. They were shooting wild, like Wild West. They hit a woman who was helping her kids get inside the building." The woman, the shooter and another man (believed to be the second shooter, injured in an earlier gun fight) were taken to Brookdale University Hospital.

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