A bullet meant for someone else struck a 30-year-old woman in the leg, seriously wounding her, outside a busy Brooklyn shopping plaza, police and witnesses said Monday.
The woman was strolling near Fulton St. in Albee Square close to the historic Dime Savings Bank in downtown Brooklyn when she was shot in the lower leg around 2:13 p.m., police said.
Cops said the victim was an innocent bystander, and the shooter appeared to be aiming at someone else.
A vendor selling hats across the street said the shooter seemed to recognize someone he knew, and brazenly opened fire in the middle of the afternoon.
“There was one guy, he was shouting at someone,” said the vendor, who asked to remain anonymous. “He had a gun, and he shot one time. The woman, she was just walking and she was hit in the leg. It was crazy.”
The gunman immediately fled the scene and “ran away down Fulton St.,” the vendor said.
Medics rushed the victim to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Brooklyn Methodist, where she was in stable condition, according to police.
A blood-encrusted pant leg cut from the victim’s jeans by medics was still on the ground hours later, a Daily News reporter at the scene observed.
A single bullet casing was spotted on the ground nearby.
So far there have been no arrests as police continue to look for the shooter, cops said. The investigation is ongoing.
Albee Square is in the middle of Fulton Mall, a lively shopping center including a Target, Primark, Trader Joe’s, and a cinema along with numerous eateries and outdoor seating.
In 2025 there were zero shootings in the area, which sits in NYPD’s 84th Precinct, but incidents of burglary and petty larceny have increased markedly over the past several years, according to Police Department crime statistics.