Surveillance video shows a suspected gunman in the deadly, potentially Tren de Aragua gang-linked shooting Sunday outside a Brooklyn migrant shelter.
The cellphone-toting man seen in footage released by the NYPD late Monday is the shooter who hopped off a moped outside 29 Ryerson St. and popped off shots, police said.
“They shot from the bike and kept going,” a migrant who witnessed the late Sunday shooting told The Post.
The shooting is connected to nearby gunplay that evening in Steuben Park that left a homeless man dead, cops said.
Both bullet-ridden, bloody crimes are being investigated as a potential bloody turf war between the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and former members battling over control of drugs and prostitution, law enforcement sources told The Post.
“We are still investigating if this was connected to a gang,” Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday, when asked by The Post.
“That is still unclear at this moment, but we are on top of it. We’re not going to allow a gang to take a foothold here.”
More than 100 protesters swarmed a block from the Clinton Hill shelter Tuesday to demand that Adams and the city end the lease, claiming the violence was provoked by unsafe housing conditions.
The ralliers held signs that read “Too big to be safe,” “400 not 4,000” and “Is cramming 3200 vulnerable people into mega shelters our city’s long-term strategy? More right-sized shelters now.”
“This is the last straw,” event organizer, Renee Collymore, and the Democratic Liaison for the 57th Assembly District told the energized crowd.
“You cannot throw all of these thousands of people in our small community. We’re asking for even distribution … We need these migrants to be evenly distributed across Brooklyn. We should not have to bear the brunt of this.”
Collymore, visibly enraged, called the overpopulated migrant shelter a “disgrace.”
“Two people have died — they died because this shelter is overpopulated and we’ve been saying this from day one,” she continued. “To reduce the size. And you will not listen to your constituents.”
Adams’ office had promised that the mayor would visit the neighborhood soon to inspect the shelter’s impact on the community at large — but theorized no action would be taken unless their Councilwoman Crystal Hudson put pressure on the city, Collymore told The Post.
“We’re saying 400 — not 4,000,” she added.
“Staten Island is saying ‘zero.’ Bensonhurst is saying ‘zero.’ Where in any part of the city are people anywhere saying we’ll take 400 migrants but this community,” she continued.
“That sets us apart from any place in New York City. So it goes to show you that we’re not hating on anybody. We’re not hating on the migrants…we’ll take the smaller shelter because we care, we have empathy — but once you become a criminal, it’s time for you to go.”
The late Sunday shooting out the Ryerson Street left Enny DeJesus Urbina Mendez — a 21-year-old Venezuelan national — dead and left an as-yet-unidentified 59-year-old man clinging to life with a gunshot to his head, cops said.
Arturo Jose Rodriguez-Marcano, a 30-year-old homeless man, died in the nearby Steuben Park shooting.
Police identified Mendez and Rodriguez-Marcano as the victims late Monday.
The suspected gang war boiled over about 11 p.m. Sunday, as a blue sedan trailed by two men on a scooter stalked the streets near Brooklyn Navy Yard, sources said.
A man stopped the blue sedan outside Steuben Park near Flushing and Steuben streets, jumped out and unleashed gunfire that killed Rodriguez-Marcano, sources said.
About five minutes later, the sedan drove past 29 Ryerson St., while the two men on the scooter stopped, according to sources. A man hopped off the scooter’s back, opened fire then jumped back onto the moped.
“They shot from the bike and kept going,” a migrant who witnessed the late Sunday shooting told The Post.
The scooter’s escape was brief.
Video shared on Instagram shows the aftermath of a crash at Park Avenue and Taaffe Place, where the scooter and a car collided. The scooter’s driver was injured and arrested, while his passenger — the suspected shooter — ran off and remains in the wind, along with the sedan gunman, sources said.
Locals in Clinton Hill have been up in arms over migrant shelters, including the one on Ryerson Street, in the normally sleepy neighborhood. A protest over the shootings was planned for Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy and Desheania Andrews
