Bloody weekend in Brooklyn: Crashes, murder
Death visited Brooklyn this weekend with car and bike crashes, a shooting in a Clinton Hill diner and the charred remains of a woman found in Marine Park.
Roughly 100 people gathered Saturday night for a candlelight vigil to remember three victims killed in a tragic car crash in Gravesend, the Sheepshead Bites blog reports. The accident occurred early Saturday, January 5, when a black Acura smashed into a red Toyota Camry at the intersection of East 5th Street and Avenue U. The crash also injured three others.
According to the Home reporter, another bloody accident took place in Gravesend around 4 p.m. on Sunday on Ocean Parkway between Avenue W and Avenue X. One car flipped on its side; at least two people were taken from the scene on stretchers.
In Clinton Hill, a drunken man “celebrating” his birthday fatally shot 34-year-old Jason Lewis inside a Brooklyn diner. According to the New York Daily News, Lewis was at the counter of the Country House Diner about early Sunday when a Tyrone Gainer started grabbing Lewis’ girlfriend. When Lewis, intervened, Gaine abruptly shot him.