3 gunned down
Cops hunt susps in B’klyn and Queens slays
COPS ARE trying to identify a woman who was shot and killed early Thursday in the Walt Whitman Houses in Brooklyn.
The victim was shot in the forehead, a leg and the left arm just after midnight in a fifth-floor stairwell of a building on N. Oxford Walk near N. Portland Ave. in Fort Greene, police said. She died at the scene. The woman had several tattoos — flames and mushrooms on her left forearm, a shamrock on her left calf, stars on her right ankle, the letters “CJ” on her back and the names “Johnathan and Cerenity” on the front of her upper chest.
She was between 20 and 35 years old, white or Hispanic, 5-foot-6, with a medium build and blond hair.
In a separate incident, police said Jahiem Smallwood, 23, was shot near his home at Bush and Columbia Sts. in Red Hook on Tuesday at about 8:15 p.m.
Smallwood (photo below), who had a 6-year-old son and was on the verge of starting a new job, was hit several times in the lower torso and legs, cops said.
Jacqueline Lewis, the victim’s mother, told police she was going to her apartment when she heard five shots, sources said.
She rushed downstairs and found him lying on the ground, sources said.
“I’m shot. Call EMS. I think I’m going to die,” Smallwood said, according to sources.
He had been shot once before, in May 2015 in the same neighborhood, sources said. He was taken to New York Methodist Hospital, where he died Wednesday. Lewis said Smallwood was supposed to start a new construction job. “I don’t know what happened. I’m not OK,” she said. “I’m just trying to hang on. I’m not doing well at all. That’s my baby that I raised.” Cops are looking for a man who was dressed in red shorts and a beige Tshirt and carrying a gym bag, sources said.
Smallwood had been arrested at least 13 times, including six times for assault, with the two most recent assaults having taken place earlier this year.
In a third and unrelated homicide, police said a Brooklyn man who was shot in the neck and chest in Queens on Sunday died Thursday.
Qusaun Brown, 23, of Brownsville, was shot near 28th Ave. and Steinway St. in Astoria just after 4 a.m. during an argument with two suspects.
One man gave the second suspect a gun, and that man fired several times at Brown, police said.
The two men then fled south on Steinway St., cops said.
Anyone with information on any of the three murders is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.