Shocking surveillance footage shows the moment two men opened fire at one another at 10am on a Brooklyn street before fleeing the scene.
The film, shot from a nearby corner, shows a man wading into a crosswalk and aiming a handgun at another man, who ducks behind cars parked on the curb.
He can be seen opening fire, with the second man later returning fire with his own pistol, with puffs of gun smoke emerging as he pulls the trigger.
Moments later, the man who was filmed opening fire first flees the scene – right past the camera that captured the incident – with its lens catching a crystal-clear shot of his face.
The gunfight happened Saturday at 9.50am at 475 Riverdale Avenue, in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn. NYPD cops are continuing to hunt for the two men involved.
It’s the latest in a series of disturbing crimes to have been caught on camera across NYC as crime continues to soar.
Shootings are up by 14.7 percent compared to this time last year, according to the latest data from the NYPD. Data released last week shows shootings up by 58.8 percent compared to 2020, before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.
Two men allegedly fired ‘multiple rounds’ at each other on Saturday at 475 Riverdale Avenue in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn
At one point, the man who begins the video by aiming a handgun at another man ducks behind a white sedan parked on the curb
The number of shooting incidents this year is up by 14.7 percent compared to this time last year, with shooting victims up by 17.8 percent, according to the latest data from the NYPD
Police haven’t made any arrests in Saturday’s shooting, but they’re offering a $3,500 reward for information
No one has been arrested in Saturday’s shooting incident. Police are offering a reward up to $3,500 for anyone with information leading to an arrest.
Footage shows the two men, both wearing black hoodies, using the residential New York City street as a shooting range.
At one point, the man who kicks off the video by aiming his gun ducks behind a white sedan after appearing to shoot his weapon. He later runs to the sidewalk and toward a surveillance camera, which captures his face.
Overall crime in New York City is up 47.7 percent from last year, with the biggest increases in grand larceny and auto theft.
On Wednesday, a blonde Florida man was arrested on suspicion of attacking seven Asian woman across Manhattan during a two-hour frenzy of violence.
Steven Zajonc, 28, was charged with assault as a hate crime, attempted assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and harassment.
The homeless man was perp-walked out of a Manhattan police station Wednesday night wearing a sweater, sweatpants and white pool sliders. He ignored reporters’ questions about why he’d allegedly carried out the spate of attacks.
He is accused of targeting seven women on February 27 between 6.30pm and 8.30pm, from Madison Avenue and East 30th Street to Broadway and East Eighth Street.
Zajonc is listed as having addresses in Sarasota, Florida, and Staten Island in New York, but was most recently listed as living at a Midtown Manhattan shelter.
Steven Zajonc, 28, was arrested and charged with assault as a hate crime, attempted assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and harassment
Zajonc ignored reporters’ questions as he was bundled into a waiting cop car Wednesday
This map shows the times and locations of the attacks, from Midtown Manhattan to Nolita and Greenwich Village, on Sunday
He does not appear to have a criminal record, and is believed to have been living on the streets at the time of the attacks.
His alleged attacks come after a spate of high-profile attacks on Asian-Americans in recent weeks – three of them deadly. Last week, Asian grandmother GuiYing Ma, 61, died after fighting for three months to recover from brain damage after being smashed in the face with a rock during a New York City street attack.
The first victim of the Sunday attacks, a 57-year-old Asian woman, was hit in the face by a man near Madison Avenue and East 30th Street.
She went to a nearby hospital to have treatment for a cut on her lip and facial swelling.
Just 10 minutes later police were called about another attack near Fifth Avenue and East 30th Street where a 25-year-old Asian woman was punched in the face by a man who ran away.
And only five minutes after that police were called again after a man punched a 21-year-old Asian woman in the face near Park Avenue South and East 23rd Street.
She was rushed to hospital with facial cuts and a swollen mouth.
Just before 7pm a fourth Asian woman, 25, was punched in the face in Union Square near Irving Place and East 17th Street. She was also left with a cut on her face and swollen lip but didn’t need hospital treatment.
At 7.15pm a 19-year-old Asian woman was elbowed in the face in the same area by a man who ran off.
The sixth attack was against a 25-year-old Asian woman who was elbowed in the face near East Houston and Mott Street and just one hour later a 20-year-old Asian woman was shoved to the ground in the same area.
A man accused of smearing feces in a woman’s face on the subway is already back out on New York City’s streets – a regular pattern for the criminal menace who has been arrested 44 times only to be released to terrorize another New Yorker.
Just one week before the horrifying subway attack, Frank Abrokwa had been arrested for allegedly threatening a hardware store employee with a screwdriver but had been released without bail.
Frank Abrokwa, 37, (pictured in his mugshot) accused of smearing feces on a woman in a subway attack last week, was released without bail, arrested again for a Brooklyn hate crime and given supervised release
The revolting attack took place without any apparent provocation during the evening rush hour
Transit crime is up significantly from last year, with 375 incidents as of February 27
The 37-year-old was also arrested on January 7, for allegedly punching a 30-year-old man on a subway platform at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue and on February 5, for hitting a 53-year-old man at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
But each time, thanks to New York’s lax new bail reform laws, the career criminal did not have to post bail and was released.
A few days after threatening the store employee during a robbery, Abrokwa allegedly lunged at the woman at the East 241st Street subway station on February 21, smearing feces on her face.
He was arraigned Tuesday night on charges of forcible touching, menacing, disorderly conduct and harassment. But once again, he was released without bail.
He was immediately taken into custody for allegedly threatening to murder a Jewish man in Brooklyn last September. He was arraigned in that case Wednesday night and given supervised release.
NYPD police union head Pat Lynch criticized New York’s bail reform laws for allowing people like Abrokwa to roam the streets.
During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Joe Biden directly took aim at progressives’ calls to ‘defund the police,’ earning a standing ovation from Republicans and sour looks from the progressive Squad.
He followed it by urging Congress to pass more gun control measures to ‘save lives.’
Republicans gave Biden a standing ovation when he vowed to fund the police during his speech
‘We should all agree: The answer is not to Defund the police. The answer is to FUND the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities,’ the president said.
The House chamber erupted in bipartisan applause, including standing ovations from top Republicans like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise.
Biden then touted his administration’s efforts to provide resources to both hire new police officers and equip them with body cameras and other measures that provide more accountability.
The president also acknowledged the toll of the violent crime wave gripping US cities by taking a moment to remember the two young NYPD officers who were slain when responding to a domestic violence call earlier this year.
‘I recently visited the New York City Police Department days after the funerals of Officer Wilbert Mora and his partner, Officer Jason Rivera. They were responding to a 9-1-1 call when a man shot and killed them with a stolen gun. Officer Mora was 27 years old. Officer Rivera was 22,’ Biden said.
‘Both Dominican Americans who’d grown up on the same streets they later chose to patrol as police officers.I spoke with their families and told them that we are forever in debt for their sacrifice, and we will carry on their mission to restore the trust and safety every community deserves.
‘I’ve worked on these issues a long time. I know what works: Investing in crime prevention and community policing, cops who’ll walk the beat, who’ll know the neighborhood, and who can restore trust and safety. So let’s not abandon our streets, or choose between safety and equal justice.’
NYC hit by spate of hate crimes
Yao Pan Ma, 61, (pictured in April) died on December 31, eight months after he was attacked
Yao Pan Ma, 61
Ma died on December 31, eight months after he was brutally beat by a homeless career criminal in April 2021.
A Chinese immigrant, he was left in critical condition and placed in a medically induced coma after Jarrod Powell, 49, stomped on his head at least six times while Ma was collecting cans to make money for his family.
‘When I saw him in the hospital…his face, I cried. I still cry,’ his wife Baozhen Chen said in April. ‘I hope he wakes up and talks to me and gets better and comes home. It’s really hard to believe.’
His death has been ruled a homicide.
Powell was taken into custody at Ward’s Island men’s homeless shelter just days after the attack in April and was initially charged with second-degree murder and two counts of assault.
Powell had been arrested 15 times since 1988.
Joseph Borgen
Joseph Borgen was beaten by a group of five men yelling anti-Semitic epithets while on his way to a pro Israel demonstration
Borgen, an accountant who lives on the Upper East Side, was wearing a grey kippa and walking toward Times Square around 6.30pm on May 20, 2021 when he alleged that a young man with a black bandana started chasing him.
‘I turned around to try to figure out what was going on and the next thing I knew I was surrounded by a whole crowd of people who proceeded to physically attack me, beat me, kick me, punch me, hit me with crutches, hit me with flag poles,’ he told DailyMail.com.
‘I thought I was going to die. I thought I was really going to die.’
Borgen said there were eight to 10 people taking part in the beatdown and they were shouting anti-Semitic slurs such as: ‘You filthy Jew. We’re going to f*****g kill you. Go back to Israel. Hamas is going to kill you.’
Faisal Elezzi, 25, of Staten Island, was charged with assault as a hate crime, menacing as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime
Waseem Awawdeh, 23, was the first man arrested over the violent assault and was charged with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing, aggravated harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
Prosecutors say he told a jailer: ‘If I could do it again, I would do it again. I have no problem doing it again.’
Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show Awawdeh wearing a black t-shirt with ‘Palestine’ emblazoned on the front, as he was led out of the 5th Precinct in handcuffs
Vilma Kari
Vilma Kari’s (right) vicious racist attack was caught on camera last year. Her daughter, Elizabeth (left), said a good Samaritan lured her attacker away
Vilma Kari was 65 on March 29, 2021, when a man later identified as Brandon Elliot kicked her and stomped on her while yelling anti-Asian slurs outside a building in New York City.
Footage of the horrific attack captured the country’s attention, particularly because it showed doormen in a nearby building seeming to not only ignore the violence but shut Vilma out by closing the door.
She was hospitalized and treated for serious injuries, requiring a walker to leave later that day.
Brandon Elliot, then 38, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime.
He reportedly shouted anti-Asian slurs and told her, ‘You don’t belong here,’ before casually walking away.
Christina Yuna Lee, 35
Christina Yuna Lee, 35
Lee was found dead on February 13 in the blood-soaked bathtub of her Chinatown apartment in New York’s Lower East Side.
The 35-year-old Asian advertising creative was knifed to death by a homeless serial criminal who was free on bail.
Terrifying footage showed Assamad Nash, 25, creep into the building behind Lee after she got out of a cab.
She entered the building, but didn’t realize that Nash – who did not appear to know his alleged victim – had sneaked in behind her after watching her exit a taxi, and was following her up six flights of stairs to her home.
Her death has not been investigated as a hate crime, but it took place during rising anti-Asian incidents in New York City.
Michelle Alyssa Go, 40
Michelle Go, 40
Go, 40, was on the N/Q/R/W platform at West 42nd Street and Broadway at around 9.40am on January 15 when Martial Simon, 61 shoved her from behind with both hands while she looked down at her phone, authorities said.
She was a senior manager of strategy and operations for management and acquisitions at Deloitte Consulting, according to her LinkedIn.
She graduated from University of California Los Angeles with a bachelor’s in economics and public policy, and got her master’s in business administration from New York University.
When Simon, who has a lengthy criminal history, was asked by a reporter if he had been the one to push Go, he said: ‘Yes, because I’m God. Yes, I did it. I’m God. I can do it.’
