BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn (WABC) — Two people were shot outside a Brooklyn sneaker store Friday, leaving a bullet-riddled scene in a normally quiet neighborhood.
The shooting happened around 4:15 pm outside the PluggedIn Sneaker Boutique located at 9413 Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge.
“It’s a very popular sneaker store. I think they were waiting for a sneaker release. And then it was chaos,” said a witness named Jared.
Witnesses tell Eyewitness News reporter Sonia Rincon that the victims were in a bullet-riddled dark gray Hyundai Sonata. They had just been picked up from the shoe store and someone who had been driving around the block in a white Mercedes seemed to be targeting someone.
“Out of nowhere, gunshots go off, I heard like six shots, one after the other,” Jared said. “And I saw a guy coming from that corner, he ran to the car and started shooting. A girl came out and she was like screaming, ‘help me, help me’.”
A young woman collapsed in front of the store after being shot in the leg. Police say he is 21 years old. A witness ran and made a tourniquet.
The second victim was a 24-year-old man who was shot in the arm.
“I didn’t even see him, he ran down the block and got shot in the arm, no one knew and he came back like 10 minutes later,” Jared said.
They were taken to Langone Hospital in Brooklyn in stable condition and are expected to survive.
A crime scene littered with carcasses is not a typical sight at 4:30pm on Fifth Avenue.
“Normally Bay Ridge is a nice area, it’s very safe. I’ve been here my whole life,” said witness Joan Kornichuk.
Store owners told Eyewitness News that their security guard did his best to protect other customers. They lowered the door and immediately closed for the day.
They say their cameras weren’t recording, but other cameras in the area were, and detectives are reviewing lots of footage, looking for at least one suspect.
Authorities describe the suspect as a man wearing a light blue tracksuit. He fled in an unknown direction.
It is still unclear who the intended target was, or why.
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