1 slain, 1 hurt critically in B’klyn shoots

ONE MAN was critically wounded and another was killed in front of his young sons Sunday during shootings a mile apart in Brooklyn.

Cops said the 49-year-old dad was outside with a friend and his two sons on Nostrand Ave. at Herkimer Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant when shots rang out just after 8:45 p.m.

One bullet struck him in the head. Medics took him to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

About two hours later, a gunman dressed in black opened fire on a 44-year-old man near the corner of Sterling Place and Schenectady Ave. in Crown Heights, striking him in the chest.

Witnesses saw the victim run diagonally across the street, finally collapsing on Schenectady Ave., in front of a tent decorated with Jamaican flags.

Medics frantically tried to revive him before taking him to Kings County Hospital in critical condition.

Both shootings happened near the area in Crown Heights where Monday’s J’Ouvert and West Indian Day Parade will take place.

Carnival floats were being set up about a block from the fatal shooting, but police said the violence didn’t appear to be connected to the upcoming festivities.

The victim was watching workers set up the floats before he was killed, said his friend, who gave just his first name, Ricky.

“It could’ve been me. It was just three pops,” Ricky said.

Throughout the day, police brought barricades in by the truckload and swarmed Crown Heights ahead of the J’Ouvert celebration, which historically has been marred by violence.

Residents hoped plans to hold J’Ouvert during daylight hours — beginning at 6 a.m. instead of 4 a.m. — would keep the streets safe.

Last year, two people were killed during J’Ouvert. In 2015, 43-yearold Carey Gabay, a Harvard-educated lawyer and aide to Gov. Cuomo, was caught in gang members’ crossfire and fatally wounded.