Two brothers who came up fatally short in a gun battle with police outside a Brooklyn nightclub early Sunday were both shot in the back, according to the city’s medical examiner.
Kayshawn Forde, 21, was shot once in the back of his left arm and a second time in the middle of his back with the bullet exiting his stomach, the ME’s office said.
His brother, Dwayne David, 22, was shot twice in the lower back, the medical examiner said.
The brothers sustained those injuries as they opened fire on two plainclothes police officers who confronted them at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday as the siblings were firing on the crowd assembled outside RJ’s Place on Rutland Road, police said.
The brothers had been involved in a fight outside the East Flatbush nightclub a short time earlier, left and returned with guns blazing, police said.
A gun was taken off Forde, but no weapon was recovered from David, who collapsed near a crowd of people.
Police believe someone in the crowd took David’s gun before they could recover it.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne today acknowledged that a narcotics lieutenant, who fired once, and another officer, who emptied his 16-bullet gun, hit the brothers in their backs.
But Browne insisted that despite the officers identifying themselves as cops, the brothers were coming at them shooting when the policemen returned fire.
Police have said the shooting appears to be within departmental guidelines.