3 Arrested in Fatal Shooting in Brooklyn

I am glad that the alleged shooters have been arrested. Too many times we allow people that we know in the community that have done wrong, to go unchecked. It is so sad that this mother had to lose her life behind nonsense. At what point will we realize that semiautomatic weapons should not be easily acquired? Hopefully, this will start the conversation again about the need for real gun control reform in this country.

Three days after a 34-year-old woman was killed by gunfire in Brooklyn as she picked up her child after school, detectives arrested the accused gunman, his brother and a half-brother, the police said on Tuesday.

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said that Andrew Lopez, 18, and two others were taken into custody on Monday by detectives at a home in eastern Queens.

Investigators believe that Mr. Lopez, who was part of a loose-knit group of youths who live at 1800 Pitkin Avenue, was the person who opened fire Friday on another group of youths who live in a public housing project. The two groups were fighting outside Public School 298, on Watkins Street in Brownsville, just before the shooting, at about 2:30 p.m., the police said.

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