The shooting happened on Putnam Avenue near Evergreen Avenue in Bushwick just after 10 p.m. Monday.
When officers arrived they found a 39-year-old man who was shot in the abdomen and a 63-year-old man shot in his right eye.
Both victims were taken to the hospital, but the 39-year-old died. He's been identified as Ramel Fisher.
The man who was shot in the eye is currently stable.
"We saw the body but we didn't know if it was dead or not so they carried him to the ambulance car," said neighbor Renat Khairullin, who was home at the time of the shooting.
Fisher was gunned down on Putnam Avenue, which is diagonally across the street from the home he grew up in.
"For me it was surprising," Khairullin said. "We heard the gunshots. Maybe it was fireworks or something because you would never expect that here actually, but then cops came and arrived, a lot of cops and we saw it from our window."
Detectives searched underneath cars, and canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses and evidence.
As police search for the killer and a motive, Mayor Eric Adams touted dozens of confiscated guns at his press conference on Tuesday, announcing that more than 2,200 illegal firearms were pulled from the streets so far this year, in part, through his gun violence prevention task force that was created in 2022.
"That is an amazing achievement," he said. "It is not the end of the line. We want a city where there are zero shootings and homicides."
The mayor says homicides are down by 40% across New York City from this time last year, and shootings by nearly 55%. Meanwhile, murders and shootings are at record lows, but the Bushwick neighborhood where Fisher was killed has seen a spike.
This is at least the sixth murder in the 83rd Precinct so far this year, compared to only one last year.
"There's so much more to do, because there are illegal guns out there and we are going to go after them," Adams said.
The mayor's announcement comes at the start of National Gun Violence Awareness Month, which honors victims.
As of right now, it is not yet known what led to the shooting and a description of a suspect has not been released.
The gun in this case has not yet been found, but there are cameras all over the block.
Police hope to use them for surveillance to help find and arrest the killer.
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