Brooklyn BMW driver, 24, fatally shot by passenger

Nicholas Williams, John Annese, New York Daily News
Updated ·2 min read
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A 24-year-old man was shot to death inside a BMW on a Brooklyn street just a few blocks from where a man was gunned down a week earlier, police said Sunday.

The latest victim, Daequan Buckley, was shot multiple times in the abdomen outside the Magic Fingers Studio Hair Salon near E. 54th St. and Church Ave. in East Flatbush about 8:20 p.m. Saturday, cops said.

“The shooter was a passenger in the car and victim was in the driver’s seat,” said a woman who works in the area and witnessed the bloodshed. “They were sitting in the car together.”

She described the vehicle as a BMW with temporary paper license plates.

“The guy shot him three times, and he got out the car and walked away,” she said. “The area is horrible. It’s not shocking to me seeing this happen. I’ve worked in the area for two years. It’s not good.”

Medics rushed Buckley to Brookdale University Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.

Police took two people, one carrying a gun, into custody as persons of interest.

Ring Tong, who works at a laundromat across the street, said she heard a barrage of shots.

“I couldn’t see anything, but there was some guys from the corner running toward the car after the shooting,” she said. “The guy was shot in the car. I couldn’t believe it.”

Another worker in the neighborhood, Ariel Jiminiaa, a manager at America’s Food Basket, said he heard the three shots “back to back,” then saw people running away.

“Over here, little by little it’s gotten a bit better, but sometimes you have problems,” he said.

The slaying was the third murder in Brooklyn’s 67th Precinct this month.

On April 20, 40-year-old bodega owner Anthony Lancaster was shot to death on E. 53th St. and Clarkson Ave.

Three days earlier, Gamaliel Oliver, 45, was dropped off at Brookdale University Hospital with a fatal gunshot to his abdomen. Police later determined he was gunned down on E. 98th St. near Lenox Road in East Flatbush about an hour earlier.

The precinct has seen a jump in homicides this year, with seven slayings through April 21 compared with five by the same point last year. Murders citywide are down more than 18% so far this year compared with the same period last year.

With Emma Seiwell