1-Year-Old Is Shot and Killed at Brooklyn Cookout - The New York Times

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A 1-year-old baby boy was killed and three men were wounded on Sunday night when two gunmen opened fire on people at a cookout in a Brooklyn park, the latest casualty in a summer of spiraling gun violence in New York, the police said.

“This is so painful,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday at a news briefing. “It’s not something we can ever look away from.”

The baby, Davell Gardner, was in his stroller when the shooting broke out at about 11:30 p.m. near the Raymond Bush Playground in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the police said.

Two gunmen, dressed all in black, approached the group, fired and fled, the police said. Davell was hit in the abdomen and later died at a local hospital, the police said.

Bullets also struck a 25-year-old man in the ankle, a 36-year-old man in the leg and a 27-year-old man in the groin. All were taken to hospitals and were expected to survive, the police said.

“These are the very real people affected by senseless gun violence,” Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea said on Twitter on Monday.

Davell’s death capped another weekend of gun violence in New York City, where shootings in June and July have risen sharply compared to the same period last year.

As of July 5, there had been 585 shootings, compared to 381 the year before. If current trends hold, the city is on pace to cross 800 shootings for the year. It would be the first time in three years that the city had reached that number.

Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, who oversaw the Brooklyn North patrol borough before being promoted to lead the New York Police Department’s Community Affairs bureau, appealed for an end to the violence on Monday morning, in a Twitter message, saying, “This. Must. STOP!”

Mr. de Blasio said on Monday, as he previously has, that he believed the rise in shootings this year was fueled primarily by the “horrible dislocation” caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which ravaged the city’s economy and upended its courts and jails.

“The N.Y.P.D. has been overloaded in so many ways and it just keeps adding up,” Mr. de Blasio said. “And most importantly, the criminal justice system is not functioning yet.”

In separate shootings on Sunday night, two boys, aged 12 and 15, were among others wounded in the city over the weekend.

The 15-year-old was hit in the wrist at 9:10 p.m. on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard near 143rd Street in Manhattan, the police said, confirming a report from the New York Post.

The 12-year-old was shot in the leg at about 9:10 p.m. on Prospect Place near Ralph Avenue in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, the police said.

Michael Gold contributed reporting.

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