Early on Sunday morning, August 8, 2021, a ShotSpotter activation and multiple 911 calls brought police to Georgia Avenue and Wortman Avenue in Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct. Officers found three people inside a vehicle who had been shot. One of those victims was 36-year-old Novada Bailey of Queens, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the face, chest, and arm and was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals / Kings County, where he was pronounced dead.

Two other men shot that morning were also killed or critically wounded. Nicholas Palmer, 36, was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital after a gunshot wound to the head. A 51-year-old man from the same vehicle was taken to Brookdale in critical condition with wounds to his forearm, upper back, and chest. Separately, two men were shot inside a nearby building at 101 Wortman Avenue; a 37-year-old was taken to a New Rochelle hospital in stable condition with a shoulder wound, and a 32-year-old was in critical condition at Brookdale with chest and neck wounds. No arrests had been announced and the investigation was ongoing.

If anyone has information about the shootings near Georgia and Wortman Avenues that morning, please share what you know.