Brooklyn Halloween party shooting leaves one dead, one wounded
A shooting at an all-night Halloween party in Brooklyn left one man dead and a woman wounded early Sunday, according to police.
Shots rang out inside the party at a rental space above a restaurant equipment store on Atlantic Ave. near Grand Ave. in Crown Heights around 6:20 a.m., cops said. Michael St. John, 28, was shot in the back and died at the scene.
A 51-year-old woman blasted in the elbow made her way to Kings County Hospital by private means, police said. She was expected to recover.
It wasn’t immediately clear who the intended target was. St. John lived in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Outside St. John’s apartment building Sunday evening, his father struggled to find words.
“It’s my son and I lost him,” said the man. “I’m hurting.”
A “Friday the 13th”-inspired hockey mask lay among the evidence as cops probed the shooting. No arrests have been made.
“We just rent the space,” a member of the venue’s cleaning crew told the Daily News. “I’m baffled. It was just a Halloween party. It’s a beautiful spot. We’ve never had problems here. People come and they try to have a good time. It’s not a bad place — but there’s always a bad apple in the bunch.”
Neighbors described the parties as boisterous.
“They do rave parties over the weekends,” said the owner of a nearby auto repair shop. “They go wild.”
A man who answered a phone number on a “for lease” sign at the party spot said he hadn’t heard about the shooting.
“I’m shocked,” said the man. “I had no idea. I don’t know nothing about it. I’m on vacation now. I’m not in New York.”
