Man dies after being shot three times while sitting in BMW in Brooklyn, police say
The stunning shooting took place on 78th Street, between 12th and 13th avenues
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A 33-year-old man died Saturday after he was shot three times in the torso while sitting in a BMW in Dyker Heights, police said.
The stunning shooting took place in front of 1222 78th Street, between 12th and 13th avenues around 5:20 p.m., police said.
The victim, identified by police as Arfan Butt, of 73rd St., was sitting in the Beemer when two males discharged a firearm.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“He was shot three times in the torso,” an NYPD spokesman said. The suspects fled the scene in a Mercedes Benz in an unknown direction.
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No other details were immediately available.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Dyker Heights drama comes a week after Brooklyn’s Zaid Zindani, 31, was fatally shot in the face and neck as he sat behind the wheel of a flashy Maserati on 63rd Street near 17th Avenue in Bensonhurst.
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Zindani was fired on in front of friends, one of whom took the wheel in an unsuccessful bid to save his pal’s life, police said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The passenger drove to the 66th Precinct station house, where cops called for medics. Zindani was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center, where he died a short time later.