An argument in a backroom pool hall in Brooklyn turned into the city’s fifth homicide of the New Year late this afternoon.
Police say that around 4 p.m., gunfire erupted in the backroom of Maria’s Grocery on Broadway near Hooper Street in Williamsburg.
One man, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Three other men were taken to the nearby 90th precinct for questioning. Police sources described all four men, including the deceased, as Spanish-speaking immigrants.