People Shot: Campaign Trail and Scene Sunday

people shot: At a community celebration in Brownsville, Brooklyn, gunfire erupted late Saturday and left 12 people shot, one of them dead, according to MSNBC. De Blasio staying off the campaign trail and in New York for the second straight weekend and his police commissioner James O'Neill were on the scene Sunday, promising that the shooters would be brought to justice. Facebook Twitter Email Print Old Timers' Day block party fallout Another NYPD suicide MTA contractors' cozy Cuomo ties Nadler, Schumer talk Trump impeachment By ERIN DURKIN and NICK NIEDZWIADEK 07/29/2019 07 23 AM EDTPresented by Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids The safest big city in America, as Mayor Bill de Blasio often likes to call it, is grappling with a stark reminder of the toll gun violence has on its neighborhoods. Shootings are up citywide this year, but in Brownsville, long troubled by violence, they had begun to decline. Councilwoman Alicka Ampry-Samuel told The New York Times that an aide grabbed her to run to a car for cover as the shots rang out. Assemblymembers Latrice Walker and Charles Barron, and City Council Member Inez Barron were among the sponsors of the popular Old Timers' Day celebration, which had been held for decades without violence until this weekend. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.