A late-night shooting in Crown Heights ended with one young man dead and another wounded. On Sunday, July 13, police answered a 911 report of an assault at the Kingsborough Houses and found 22-year-old William Blakney with a gunshot wound to the head in front of 253 Kingsborough 2nd Walk. He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in critical condition and died on Friday, July 18; the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide.

Investigators also learned a 40-year-old man was shot in the right leg and taken by private means to Interfaith Medical Center; he was reported in stable condition. As of the initial reports, no arrests had been announced and the NYPD’s investigation into the double shooting was ongoing.

Anyone with information about the events at the Kingsborough Houses that night is asked to come forward.