Brooklyn residents rallied to the streets to urge local officials to shut down migrant shelters amid increasing violence and crime after two shootings over the weekend.
Brooklyn residents took to the streets this week, after two men were fatally shot and another injured in separate shootings over the weekend, to insist upon the closure of 47 Hall Street, a migrant shelter housing thousands near where the violence took place. 'There is simply no universe where you can cram 4,000 vulnerable people together safely,' resident Tim Walker told Fox 5.
Enny Dejesus-Urbina Mendez, a 21-year-old shelter resident, was killed. A member of the local police told The New York Post that the victims of the shooting were migrants. 'We're still investigating if this was connected to a gang. That is still unclear at this moment, but we are on top of it. We're not going to allow a gang to take a stronghold or foothold here,' Adams said.
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