A gunman opened fire at a group inside a bucolic Brooklyn park early Saturday, killing one man, police and witnesses said.
Cops took one person in for questioning following the 2:45 a.m. shooting inside Carroll Park, officials said.
The unidentified victim, who is believed to be in his 20s, was in the park on President St. near Smith St. in Carroll Gardens — hanging out by some benches with a group of friends — when the suspect pulled a gun and opened fire.
A woman who lives in the area and gave her name as Alex said she saw two men who were detained by police after the shooting. She described the shooting in her community as “surprising and incredibly sad.”
“It was definitely multiple gunshots, which I thought were actually fireworks at first,” Alex said. “There was one person on the ground. By that point there were several police.”
The victim was struck once in the torso.
The gunman was targeting the group when the shooting occurred, witnesses said.
A man, 22, who wanted to be unnamed and lives in the area, said he was awakened by the sound of arguing that broke out prior to the shooting.
“A guy screamed louder than the other remarks, ‘You’re done! You’re done!’” And then a reply, ‘OK,’ then followed by gunshots,” he said. “They were loud. They were fast.”
A video reviewed by the Daily News shows responding officers performing CPR on the victim as an ambulance arrives. A few feet away, additional officers are seen with a possible suspect in custody.
EMS rushed the victim to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved. Cops were trying to confirm his identity.
On Saturday morning cops were scouring the bucolic block-long park, looking for additional evidence and surveillance videos that could help them understand what happened.
While neighbors said it’s common for people to be in the small park at night, they were surprised at the violence.
Carroll Park, one of the oldest parks in the city, is surrounded by $3 million brownstones in what’s considered one of the safest communities in the city.
There were no homicides all last year in the 76th Precinct, which covers Carroll Gardens. Only one occurred in 2023.
Shootings in the precinct also dropped last year, from 11 the previous year down to 4, cops said.
Yet felony assaults are up 16% in the area, from 104 in 2023 to 121 as of this past Dec. 29, cops said.
Criminal charges against the man in custody were pending Saturday.
