Two men were shot and critically wounded during a wild caught-on-camera attack in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — and a police officer was injured in a nearby accident while responding to the chaotic scene, cops said.
The savage caught-on-camera attack happened just before 6 a.m. Sunday morning, near the corner of Fulton and Linwood streets in the borough’s Cypress Hills neighborhood. An officer was racing to the scene when a woman driving a Honda slammed into his cruiser just minutes after the fracas, according to police.
The violence began when a gunman stalked over to a white Mercedes C300 parked near the roads’ intersection, according to a video obtained by The Post.
The gunman flung open the rear driver’s side door and grabbed the passenger by the neck with his left hand, video shows. The shooter’s right hand remained stuffed in his pocket, grasping his firearm and menacing the victim outside their vehicle.
That’s when the driver of the Mercedes popped out of the car and confronted the gunman, who frantically waved his weapon — which was hidden on his shirt — and aimed it at the duo.
The men traded words on the sidewalk before the passenger went after the gunman in an apparent attempt to grab the pistol, the video shows.
After a scrum in the middle of the street, the gunman pulled the trigger and pumped several bullets into the 28-year-old passenger, leaving him wounded on the cold ground, according to cops.
The gunman then turned his attention to the driver — an unidentified 33-year-old man — who quickly ran away with his hands in the air. That didn’t stop the gunman from pumping two rounds into his back before he seemed to lose interest and flee, the video showed.
Meanwhile, the 28-year-old lay on the pavement as the rain pelted him and a small crowd gathered around.
“I heard the shots: ‘Bang! Bang!’” a female neighbor told The Post. “And I heard people screaming, but couldn’t understand what they said.”
“I went out and saw a man on the street,” she continued. “The woman saying, ‘Call an ambulance! Call an ambulance!’ I went back to my house. It’s too dangerous.”
Police said EMS brought the two men to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where the 28-year-old is in critical condition.
The 33-year-old was listed in critical but stable condition, cops added. No arrests were immediately made.
Minutes after the shooting, the police cruiser responding to the shooting call was struck at an intersection a few blocks away, the NYPD said.
The officer was driving near the intersection of Elton Street and Pitkin Avenue — just south of the shooting — at about 6:05 a.m. when a 31-year-old female rammed him with her 2013 Honda, cops said.
The cruiser then slammed into two empty, parked cars, cops said. EMS treated the woman and her 29-year-old passenger at the scene.
Cops brought the 28-year-old officer to Jamaica Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Further details of the crash weren’t available Sunday. The investigation is ongoing, cops said.
