Stray bullet hits B’klyn woman lying in her bed
A pair of stray bullets — apparently fired from a nearby New Year’s party — struck a Brooklyn woman lying in bed and narrowly missed her neighbor just minutes after the clock struck midnight, police and eyewitnesses said.
The 33-year-old woman — identified by sources as Nakeydra Kirkland — was hit in the leg when one of the bullets tore through her second-floor bedroom window on Lincoln Ave. near Sutter Ave. in East New York at 12:07 a.m. on Friday.
A second bullet ripped through the roof of a neighboring home and came within inches of striking Junior Soto in his bedroom.
The burst of gunfire — “like firecrackers going off,” said witnesses — appeared to come from the roof of the Lincoln Plaza apartments across the street, according to local residents. No arrests were made in the seemingly random shootings, and the bullet hole in the woman’s window was visible hours later.
“It was so fast, going so fast,” said a building resident named Irma. “Cops were going back and forth between here and (Lincoln Plaza).”
Soto, 61, said he was standing in his bedroom when the bullet came through the ceiling and landed on the bed he shares with his wife.
“My dad could have lost his life,” said his daughter Maria Soto, 22. “He’s always lying down right there.”
Maria Soto said the rooftop party amped up after the clock hit midnight to ring in 2021, followed within minutes by the gunfire.
“It was like a whole big party up there (Thursday night),” she said. “They were screaming at 12 o’clock. That’s when it started going ... It was so loud. I heard (the shot) in my room and came running out.”
Her traumatized father “was thinking ‘What the f—- just happened?’ “she said. “He was over here traumatized, wondering what happened.”
The shaken dad, standing in his bedroom, echoed his daughter’s terrifying tale: “Me, right here, at 12 o’clock. Five minutes later, boom boom boom.”
Nakeydra Kirkland was taken by medics to Brookdale Hospital and was expected to survive.
“That is a nice lady who doesn’t bother anybody,” said a longtime neighborhood resident named Leah. “I’m lost. I don’t know what to think right now. I assumed it was firecrackers.”