Man shot 3 times on Brooklyn street
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!”