A man who stabbed his mother in the foot last week was fatally gunned down at a Brooklyn barbecue on Sunday, law-enforcement sources said.
Cornell Clarke, 21, was one of three people shot at the gathering on Quincy Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 1 a.m. Sunday. He took a bullet to the chest and was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.
Two teenage girls were dancing near Clarke when the gunman approached, law-enforcement sources said. They ran into the house for cover, but the 17-year-old girl was shot in the hip and the 19-year-old was shot in the thigh and buttocks, cops said. The women were hospitalized in stable condition.
The deadly violence came just days after Clarke was arrested for stabbing his mother, sources said.
The 39-year-old woman suffered a puncture wound between her second and third toes during an argument April 16, just two days after a restraining order against her son expired, sources added.
Clarke also allegedly smashed the rear window of his mother’s 2000 Nissan Maxima during the argument. Clarke was busted and charged with assault on Wednesday.
His murder occurred just two blocks from where famed movie director Spike Lee filmed the 1989 flick “Do the Right Thing.” The movie highlighted racial tensions in Brooklyn through a story that took place on the hottest day of the year.
Clarke had several prior arrests in addition to his mother’s stabbing, including possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.
Cops responding to a report of a man with a gun on the corner of Atlantic and Albany avenues in February found Clarke inside a car with a large bag of crack cocaine, sources said.
In May 2011, he also was charged with misdemeanor trespassing at a brownstone on Hancock Street, police sources said. Clarke also had sealed arrests, sources said.
Investigators do not yet have a motive in Clarke’s killing, and they haven’t turned up any surveillance video of the shooter.