Neighbors describe chaos after fatal Brooklyn triple shooting at NYCHA development

Neighbors at a Brooklyn public housing development were reeling from shock and fear Sunday, a day after a triple shooting left one man dead.

Cops are looking for a gunman wearing a dark-colored hoodie, dark pants and black-and-gray sneakers after three men were shot in the courtyard of the Sumner Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 5:15 p.m. Saturday.

A barrage of bullets on Myrtle and Throop Aves. fatally struck a 28-year-old man twice in the chest and hit two more men, 32 and 28, in the back and stomach.

The development has seen its share of gun violence and gang activity including a broad daylight shooting on Sept. 6 that left three men and a woman wounded.

“It seems it’s happening more frequently,” said neighbor Leida Pantaleon, 44. “I don’t know if it’s something gang related. It’s scary.”

Back in 2021, police and prosecutors busted 15 alleged members of the 900 Gang, whose subgroups, the Stack Money Goons and Jayson Fam” operate out of the Sumner Houses, the Brooklyn D.A.’s office said at the time.

Pantaleon described the chaos after Saturday’s shooting.

“I heard the shots which sounded like firecrackers to me and then when I looked to turn I just started to see where they were coming from,” she said. “I saw people running outside and I was like, oh my God. People started rushing up the stairs…. I called my daughter to make sure she was fine.”

Initially police were looking for a group of shooters and one witness told The News he saw a group of at least five masked people, all with guns, fleeing the scene. Cops now say they now believe there was only one shooter.

“When detectives came I heard a woman crying outside,” Pantaleon said.

Residents of the building believe the culprits don’t live in the development, said Samantha Wilson, 26.

“It’s terrible that it happened,” she said. “The area is a good area.”

Police have not yet released the dead man’s name and have made no arrests in the shooting.