It was a violent Memorial Day weekend in Bushwick, with one man dead, a teen recovering from a stab wound, and a fight that left several people with minor wounds.
A huge Monday night brawl at the Wilson Street L train stop caused delays for commuters as police suspend service to investigate.
Details are still sketchy, but sometime after 9pm a brawl on the Canarsie-bound track at the Wilson stop turned into pandemonium as people began to run out of the station. Both the Wilson and Halsey Street stations were closed off by police and service between Bedford Avenue and Broadway Junction were suspended.
Carlos Matias, whose aunt was punched in the face during the rumble, told BushwickBK that she was "shaken up" and saw a woman with a baby stroller pushed down the stairs. Police continue to investigate but NYPD public information officials would not comment.
The melee at the Wilson stop comes two months after transit police began flooding the L stops between Myrtle-Wyckoff and Broadway Junction after a number of snatch-and-run robberies.
Sunday was even worse. A man was killed steps away from his home and a teen was stabbed.
Calvin Louis-Juste was steps away from his 136 Moffat St. home when he was shot once in the neck at point blank range Sunday morning according to officials who spoke with the Daily News. The 24-year-old, who received his master’s degree from Cortland University last October, was on his way to meet friends when he was shot at 1:45am.
Louis-Juste was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where he died. No arrests have been made in connection to the shooting but six large shell casings were recovered at the scene.
In a separate incident, a Hispanic teen was beaten up and stabbed near Flushing Avenue between Humboldt St. and Broadway in what police are calling a gang-related stabbing.
Bucky Turco, who runs the AnimalNY blog, witnessed the incident and told BushwickBK a group of 15 teens attacked the victim, who was wearing rival gang beads.
"The kid stumbled into that new deli on Flushing. They called the cops," said Turco.
The teen was taken to Woodhull Hospital with minor stab wounds and police have obtained surveillance footage of the attack.
women in bk May 31st, 2011 at 2:25 pm
This is what make Bushwick look bad. People take life for granted. We should live as if everyday were our last and make the best of it.
Bushwick Witness May 31st, 2011 at 6:05 pm
I was on the L train on Monday night and heard two gun shots and saw a man with a gun run by right before the melee broke out. The train pulled to Halsey and stopped for about 20 minutes before the cops told us to get out and walk to another stop. They never answered questions about what happened.
d May 31st, 2011 at 9:01 pm
calvin DID NOT live at 136 moffat…thats the house he was killed in front of
Fred Dresser June 2nd, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Jesus will take care of everything.
christina pinero June 24th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
calvin was shot for no reason he was a good person, these young people are just killing eachother. they dont value life calvin your foever going to be missed
broken hearted mother June 29th, 2011 at 8:14 am
my son Calvin is n was a good man he care n loved every one, Calvin always have a smile on his face, Calvin did all the rite things in life, all im asking is why why why why my son why some garbage of a so call person killed him, I know who did it but no one will say anything, a garbage on a man call jonathan thomas killed my son, this so call person is nothing but trash his wost then garbage n trash his the scum of the earth
broken hearted mother June 29th, 2011 at 8:34 am
jonathan thomas killed my baby boy Calvin, now the garbage called jonathan thomas is in jail for killing another young man on the 18th of June there was many many witnesses on this shooting, we all believe that now some one will come out n say that jonathan thomas killed my son Calvin, his mother should be a shame of herself for having n raising a son like him, if i was his mother i would feel shameful n be to a shame for showing my face in public, if u see the video when jonathan thomas was arrested coming out of the hospital look at his face he looks like he don’t care he have no remorse no heart he don’t care about any thing n any one in life he have a real cold look on his face wow i mean like wow how can some one be n live like that n the people that didn’t say any thing when jonathan thomas killed my son now the young man he just killed death is on your hands