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A hair stylist said he played dead as two men shot one person dead and wounded four others yesterday afternoon in Brooklyn. Glen, who works at De Lux Gallery hair salon, told the Post, "I thought [one of the shooters] was ... a madman killing people - I was basically waiting for my turn to be shot."
The police believe the injured victims-- one of whom was an off-duty police officer getting her hair done-- "appear to be bystanders." It turns out the shooters had targeted the deceased, 20-year-old Lethania Garcia. Garcia had been standing in front of Cake Man Raven Confectionary a few stores away when an SUV pulled up on Fulton Street and the gunmen jumped out. Garcia ran into the hair salon, where he was shot in the head halfway through the salon.
Chan Lee, the owner of a restaurant across the street, told the Times he thought he heard a dozen shots, “I thought they were playing around. But then I thought, what kind of toy sounds so loud?” Lee also described the gunfire as being "like Vietnam" to the Daily News. Another person told the News he heard 15 shots, "There was a pop and then a series of staccato pops. It sounded like a semiautomatic."
One bystander outside the salon was shot in the leg, while three inside were hit--a hair stylist was shot in the arm and leg, another customer was shot in the leg and the wounded police officer "suffered a bullet wound to her right toe," according to the Daily News. The cop's friend said, "She's kind of traumatized."
Police are trying to determine a motive for the shooting. From the Post: Garcia "had an arrest record for robbery and drugs and had been shot several times before yesterday. He had a suit pending against the city for alleged police brutality."
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"The police believe the injured victims-- one of whom was an off-duty police officer getting her hair done-- "appear to be bystanders," as the turns out the shooters had chased the deceased, 20-year-old Lethania Garcia, from down the street. Garcia had been standing in front of Cake Man Raven Confectionary when an SUV pulled up on Fulton Street and the gunman jumped out."
My God you are bad at what you do. Let's see if you can find your own mistake.
Well that's odd - I thought you can't own guns in new york city. How come these shoot outs continue t happen, even though guns are illegal?
Sounds like there are people who want to silence Garcia so that his suit against the city doesn't go forward. I hope there will be someone who will stand up and speak for the deceased. This is an outrage.
"It turns out the shooters had chased the deceased, 20-year-old Lethania Garcia, from down the street"
I wonder what it was like to chase a deceased person down the street.
1. 'deceased' is a noun in this context.
2. the commas before and after 20 year-old and Garcia indicate that it's a description of deceased, not the other way around.
... not to be a grammar nazi uber-nazi.
I agree with #5. As much as I enjoy throwing both of the Jens under the bus, Jen Chung was actually grammatically correct this time. The commas saved her.
Capitalize "deceased" to emphasize its proper noun status because the comma is just too weak in this situation to do all the heavy lifting by itself.
i'm going to have to disagree with you, nanny. deceased is a common noun, not a title (like president [and in this context would not be capitalized anyway]) or a proper noun. you can't arbitrarily confer proper noun status due to the supposed ambiguity of a sentence.
rules is rules.
I want to see some semicolon action.
@#8, Creative license?