DEATH FLEW BY
Shoot vic caught in crossfire in Brooklyn
A man and woman from Brooklyn went outside to walk their dog and talk about their kids — and stepped into a crossfire of bullets between two rival groups, one of the victims told the Daily News on Wednesday.
Maria Rosado, 46, and the father of her children, Pedro DeJesus, 42, met up Tuesday night — as they often do to walk Mateo the family dog and talk about their three children, ages 26, 18 and 13 — outside the Marcy Houses when the night air exploded in gunfire.
“I was so scared, because the bullets were going right past my ears. It was horrible, it was an experience that I’ve never had before in my life,” Rosado, speaking in Spanish, said of the harrowing incident. “It’s something you can’t explain. More than anything, I thank God, because if not, I wouldn’t be here telling you this story.”
Rosado was struck in the toe and
the leg, and DeJesus was hit in the hand.
Police sources initially said, incorrectly, that the two were shot through a third-floor window and struck in an apartment on Marcy Ave.
“The danger is anywhere and everywhere these days. The danger is right outside your house, at your door, just around the corner,” Rosado said.
She said the couple “just walked around these two buildings like we always do.”
“When we got to the corner of Park Ave. and Marcy, we stayed there for like a minute, and we saw two people with dark skin walk by. One of them had a Citi Bike,” she recalled.
The duo were about 10 to 15 feet in front f of Rosado and DeJesus, when two t more men jumped out from behind a nearby traffic light and started shooting, she said.
“The only thing I saw was that one of the guys, the one with the bike, grabbed it and lifted it up,” she said. “And I saw that a first shot had gone off. So I got scared. I don’t know how, but I threw myself onto the ground.”
She added, “I didn’t see what happened with the others, with the father of my kids — I just stayed there, scared, because all of the bullets were flying over me. They kept shooting until those people ran away, in the opposite direction.”
More than six shots went off.