Brooklyn man fatally shot in Crown Heights
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A Brooklyn man was fatally shot Saturday night in Crown Heights, cops said.
Paul Hoilett was walking down Buffalo Avenue near Sterling Place just after 8 p.m. when a man wearing a red hoodie walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head, police said.
The shooter quickly jumped into a white Jeep Renegade and fled the scene, cops said.
“It all happened within 30 seconds,” a source said of the shooting.
Hoilett was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
The 31-year-old was arrested a day earlier after threatening a man with a knife who caught him trying to break into some cars, according to police.
The man was sitting in his Jeep at around 12:20 a.m. Friday when he noticed Hoilett a few cars behind him, allegedly holding a flashlight and trying to open the doors of a group of cars that were parked near the corner of Sackman and Fulton streets, cops said.
When Hoilett tried to open the door of the Jeep, the man got out of the vehicle and confronted him.
“Mind your own business,” Hoilett told the man. The would-be crook also threatened the man with a blade saying “leave me alone or I’ll hurt you,” according to police.
The motorist ran off and called the police, who caught-up with Hoilett shortly after while canvassing the area, cops said.
It’s unclear if the two incidents were related, police said.
It was the second fatal shooting in the Big Apple on Saturday. Just minutes earlier, two men were gunned down and a third was critically injured in a shooting in East Harlem.