PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — POLICE SEEK AN ASSAILANT and motive in the fatal shooting of a man Saturday night during an outdoors block party.
The NYPD received a 911 call around 11:40 p.m. Saturday reporting that a man was shot while attending a Knicks victory party on Lincoln Road between Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in the 71st Precinct.
Police found a male, 44, with multiple gunshot wounds throughout the body. Medics transported the victim to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in critical condition, where he was later pronounced deceased. No arrests have been made, and an investigation is ongoing as police try to establish a motive.
The NYPD identified the victim as Emanuel Spencer of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
Spencer was shot at a Knicks block party shortly after the Knicks won the NBA championships, the police and neighbors told reporters from the Daily News on Sunday.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), on X at NYPDTips, or by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website.
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