Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant were rocked with violence early today when three people were viciously murdered in three unrelated incidents over 1½ hours, authorities said.
In the first slaying, a 22-year-old woman was violently gunned down as she frantically called 911 on a pay phone near the corner of Hancock Street and Bushwick Avenue at 1:17 a.m., police sources said.
Investigators are still looking into the nature of the emergency call, sources said.
Aleisha Thompson — who was shot 12 times — was pronounced dead at Woodhull Hospital, cops said.The second slaying came at 2:39 a.m., when 32-year-old Zacquran Horton was found near the corner of Halsey Street and Wilson Avenue with a gunshot wound to his back, cops said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Horton was jumped when he tried to flee a gang of bloodthirsty thugs at the corner of Eldert Street and Wilson Avenue, his father, Kenneth Thompson, said.
Approximately seven minutes later, police found Kevin Grandison, 26, lying on the ground near Halsey Street and Reid Avenue with a single stab wound to his chest, cops said.
Neighbors of the victim, said he was knifed during a dispute with a neighbor who has a reputation for being an alcoholic.It’s unclear what sparked the bloody fight, but police are questioning the suspect who allegedly plunged the knife into Grandison, sources said.
The victim, who had two sons and another child on the way had left his apartment to go to the store, but never returned, said his 31-year-old brother-in-law Ivan Sanks.
“Someone so young to go out the way he did, he didn’t deserve that,” Sanks said.