A 37-year-old Brooklyn woman suffered graze wounds to two fingers on her left hand after a stray bullet came through her apartment window overnight, the latest in a series of overnight shootings to rock New York City as gun violence surges, a senior NYPD official and other law enforcement authorities said Thursday.
The woman was in her first-floor apartment at the Troy Avenue building in Crown Heights when gunfire apparently erupted outside around 1:15 a.m., according to officials. She told detectives she woke up from sudden pain in her left hand and came out of her bedroom to tell her husband, who was in the living room, that her hand was bleeding, the senior official said.
She noticed a hole in her back window when she went back into the bedroom as well as a hole in the nightstand next to her bed, the NYPD official said the woman told detectives. That's when the woman called 911.
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One shell casing was discovered outside the building, authorities said. The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment to her fractured fingers but is expected to be OK.
No description of a suspect or suspects was immediately available. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
The Crown Heights shooting came after another night of gun violence claimed four lives in less than three hours across the five boroughs Tuesday into Wednesday. NYPD data over the last four weeks shows the murder rate in New York City is up 16% over the same period in 2021, reversing gains made earlier in the year.
