3 homicides in 3 hours in Brooklyn, police search for gunmen

Thursday, May 26, 2022
EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Three men were fatally shot in Brooklyn in a little more than three hours Wednesday afternoon.

Police say they found a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his stomach on Clarkson Avenue in East Flatbush just before 7 p.m.
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He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County and is expected to survive.

Police then entered an apartment on the second floor, where they found a 38-year-old man dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

Police did not find any weapons inside the apartment.

Earlier, around 4 p.m., a 22-year-old man was fatally shot in front of the New First Cook restaurant on Stillwell Avenue in Gravesend.

Police say the gunman pulled up in a vehicle, briefly talked to 22-year-old Rasard Deas, and then shot him.



Deas made his way into the restaurant and collapsed. He reportedly has some prior arrests.

Then, around 7:15 p.m., 22-year-old Tristan Templeman was found fatally shot in his apartment in East New York.
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His mother discovered his body, and police said he may have been dead for hours.

So far, there are no arrests in any of the shootings.

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