REVELER SHOT DEAD AFTER LEAVING PARTY
Neighbors complain that B’klyn residence is weekly nuisance
A raucous all-night Brooklyn house party ended in bloodshed early Saturday when a reveler was gunned down, with neighbors describing the East New York residence as a weekly nuisance with booming music and heavy boozing.
Kelson Fleary, 37 — who was once charged with attempted murder — was leaving the gathering around 5:20 a.m. when he became a victim, fatally shot by a gunman who trailed him outside, an eyewitness told the Daily News.
“He didn’t see this coming,” said Ricky Gibson, who acknowledged he runs the regular parties at the house on Louisiana Ave. just south of Linden Blvd. and was cleaning up bottles when the shooting started.
Fleary — a regular guest known as “Peewee” — reached for his cell phone when he was hit, but was then shot about four more times outside the home, said Gibson.
“He didn’t know it was coming,” Gibson said. “I believe if there was an altercation, he would have never turned his back.”
“The shots woke me up,” recalled neighbor Kenneth Kitson. “I heard a guy say, ‘You’re running! You’re running!’ and fire two more shots.”
EMS rushed the victim to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The suspect fled the scene on foot and remained at large, with the source of the deadly dispute unclear. Detectives scoured the area Saturday for surveillance footage to help them identify the gunman, police said.
Fleary lived in Crown Heights, about 4 miles from where he was killed.
Court records show Fleary was arrested on Sept. 16, 2009, for attempted murder, assault and weapons possession in Brooklyn but never convicted. Details of the arrest were not immediately available Saturday.
Frustrated local residents described the weekly get-togethers as a neighborhood nightmare, with booming Caribbean music that runs from 8 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. the next day.
Neighbor Curt Parris, 63, said he heard four or five shots — and knew right away it was Gibson’s party.
“Every weekend ... there is a whole heap of people making nothing but noise in the back, and they’re partying,” said Parris. “I don’t know what else they’re doing.”
Another neighbor said area residents’ complaints about the house have fallen on deaf ears.
“Nobody did anything,” said the outraged neighbor. “It took for somebody to die for them to come down here and do something about this. This is deplorable, because if it was in a rich neighborhood, something would have been done.”
Kitson, 69, said he constantly calls both the police and 311 about the problem without any results.
“Sometimes they go inside and tell them not to party,” he said. “And once the police step out they raise up the music. Every weekend.”
More than 200 complaints to 311 have been made against the home since 2010, according to city records.
Since May, neighbors have filed 17 complaints about loud music, public urination and fireworks at the home to 311, city data show.
Most of the recent 311 complaints were about noise. In an Aug. 4 complaint, the caller reported a house party guest urinating in the street onto a neighbor’s property.
Nearly all the complaints have been filed on the weekends, the data show.
Five 311 complaints about the building were directed to the NYPD in June and four in July, police said. So far this month, four complains were lodged: Three to the NYPD and one to the Department of Sanitation.
Complaints were also made to the Department of Sanitation about the trash and to the Department of Buildings about “using a residential building for commercial use.”
Police say they were addressing the problem and had visited the address, but records showed no summonses filed against the property since 2010.
According to local residents, roughly 100 people arrive at the parties every Friday night, drinking heavily and circulating in and out until after sunrise.
Partyers also take up all the available parking spots, the residents say.
“You go out in the morning and the people that have been partying all night cuss at you in your own neighborhood,” the outraged neighbor said, adding the crowd leaves litter and bottles all over the street, and some partygoers urinate in public.
The three-story home, which contains about four apartments, was last sold in 2015 for $580,000, according to the real estate website Redfin.
The two owners haven’t paid their $2,718 monthly mortgage payment in some time, and in February, Lakeview Loan Service LLC started foreclosure proceedings, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
“I’m fed up with the police and I’m fed up with the noise,” Kitson said. “The entire neighborhood is fed up.”