Brooklyn pol ‘traumatized’ by fatal Brownsville shooting vows anti-violence push in Albany
State Sen.Jesse Hamilton Will Seek To Have A State-Level Task Force Formed
Witnessing the cold-blooded fatal shooting of a man is something Brooklyn State Sen. Jesse Hamilton won’t soon forget — and something he plans to share with his colleagues in Albany very soon.
Hamilton (D-Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Park Slope) was meeting with local community leaders in the community center on Osborn Street at the Howard Houses in Brownsville last Wednesday afternoon when they heard a series of gunshots.
Moments later, a badly bleeding man, later identified as Rysheen Ervin, 28, of East New York, staggered past the window of the community center — in full view of Hamilton and the others — and crumpled to the pavement .