A gruesome shooting in a Brooklyn apartment building was caught on video and shared widely on social media on Tuesday; users were debating whether or not the incident qualified as self-defense.
“It definitely does not look like self-defense,” Ian Miles Cheong wrote on X. “It looks like a straight up hit. According to the police report, the suspect was upset about the kids upstairs making noise so he went up there and shot the dad and his 27-year-old son.”
The NYPD has identified the shooter, who fled on foot. He is still at large.
Watch the video below. GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING.
It definitely does not look like self-defense. It looks like a straight up hit. According to the police report, the suspect was upset about the kids upstairs making noise so he went up there and shot the dad and his 27-year-old son. https://t.co/Sy7sAzyrFo
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 31, 2023
From The New York Post:
The distressing footage obtained by The Post opens with a man dressed in all black pacing angrily outside his upstairs neighbors’ apartment on the fourth floor of 1418 Brooklyn Ave. in a well-known East Flatbush housing complex where stars Barbra Streisand and Michael K. Williams grew up.
A woman emerges from the apartment and exchanges words with the neighbor, who was identified by cops Tuesday as Jason Pass, 47.
A short time later, the woman is joined by her son, identified by cops as 27-year-old Chinwai Mode. The video has no audio, so it is unknown what was said during the exchange.
Moments later, Mode’s stepfather, 47-year-old school bus driver Bladimy Mathurin, marches out of the apartment brandishing a pair of scissors and angrily confronts the neighbor, the video shows.
At that moment, the verbal dispute takes a harrowing turn when the neighbor in black pulls out a handgun and aims it at Mathurin.
Shocking moment neighbor executes NYC dad and stepson during argument over noise https://t.co/7fxIEsDrcD pic.twitter.com/fadPfnpNjc
— New York Post (@nypost) October 31, 2023
