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Two men were shot and killed early Saturday morning at a gathering inside Platinum 181, a banquet hall in Brownsville. The Daily News reports that there was "heavy drinking" before the gunfire that came at just after 4 a.m. yesterday. One man died immediately after being shot in the head, a second 23-year-old man died later at Brookdale Hospital after being shot in the chest. Earlier Friday night, another shooting in Brownsville left three injured, but appears to be unrelated. A 15-year-old and 22-year-old man were in stable condition after being shot in the chest and a 26-year-old man is in critical condition at Brookdale after being shot in the head in the incident that took place around 10 pm. Few other details are available about either shooting. Another shooting in East Flatbush left a man dead on Friday evening and the day before two men in Jamaica, Queens were shot in the head and fatally wounded early Christmas morning.

Two men were shot in the head and found dead just after midnight on Christmas in front of the apartment of one of the victims in the Jamaica section of Queens. Police are still investigating and have not revealed any motive behind the shootings of 42-year-old Andre Stokes and 34-year-old Jamel Griffin, both of whom the Daily News notes "had troubled pasts with numerous arrests." Griffin left behind a young son and was expecting another. Murders and shootings have risen in Jamaica this year. Griffin's grandmother, who previously lost a 15-year-old son to a shooting said, "There is nothing worse than losing your child to a gun."