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Man dead, dog injured in Coney Island shooting

A Brooklyn man was murdered shot inside an apartment building in Coney Island Tuesday night by a killer who also shot the victim’s dog.

The 20-year-old man was struck multiple times in the chest at around 7:00 p.m. in the Gravesend Houses.

“I just want my son back, I just want my son!” the victim’s grieving mother said outside the building. “What is wrong with these people? Why is everybody shooting each other?”

The man’s pit bull, who was tied on a leash outside the entrance, was shot in the leg.

The victim, whose name was not immediately released, “had bullet wounds in his chest. You could tell he was gone,” said witness Keith Browning, 53. “It’s a damn shame to die on Christmas Eve.”