New York Daily News

Man shot 3 times on Brooklyn street

- 1. Member FDIC. Kerry Burke, John Annese and Graham Rayman

TWO BURSTS of bullets on a Brooklyn street left a man critically injured Wednesday night.

A gunman dressed in black opened fire on 23-year-old Shaquill Banks in front of his grandmothe­r’s apartment building on Chauncey St. by Malcolm X. Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 10 p.m., police sources said.

Banks took three shots to the chest and medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital in critical condition, cops said.

“He’s a nice young man. He just got out of jail, and he’s getting his life together,” said his grandmothe­r, Mary Banks, 61, who added that he has a 5-year-old daughter named Harmony.

Banks was visiting his mom and grandmothe­r, who live in a first-floor apartment, and went outside to grab a bite to eat.

“I was telling him, ‘Quill, don’t go outside. Stay here.’ Because I knew he had some beef out there,” Banks said.

She said she was watching TV not long after he left, “and we heard shots, and then some more shots.”

A witness described two bouts of gunfire, about four or five shots each, and saw Banks faceup and bleeding on the street.

“His hands were over his belly. His white T-shirt was bloody. There was lots of blood. He wasn’t moving,” said the witness, who didn’t give his name. “He lost a lot of blood. There was a group of guys running.”

Police were looking for members of that group and reviewing video from a nearby deli, sources said.

A woman fainted at the scene, moments after the shooting, while a second woman kneeled and wailed, “My God! My God! Jesus! It could have been anyone! My God! My God!”

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