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# East New York Shooting Snaps Record Murder-Free Stretch
- URL: https://bklyner.com/east-new-york-shooting/
- Published: 2018-04-23T15:38:47.000Z
- Updated: 2018-04-23T17:32:10.000Z
- Author: Paul Stremple
- Tags: East New York, Eastern Brooklyn, News, Police & Fire, Hendrix Street, homicide, Jahimel Gayle, Jahmorley O. Gayle, murder, nypd 75th precinct, shooting, #wp

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The building on Hendrix Street in East New York, near where Gayle was shot and killed (Screenshot via Google Maps)

EAST NEW YORK – After an article celebrating East New York’s [historic run of four months without a murder](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/nyregion/east-new-york-precinct-no-murders.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion®ion=stream&module=stream%5Funit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront&ref=bklyner.com) was published, it happened—a man was shot and killed in the neighborhood, just two days later.

Just before noon on Sunday, April 22, police responded to a 911 call of a man shot at 475 Hendrix Street, near Sutter Avenue in East New York, said police. There, officers found 37-year old Jahimel Gayle, unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the next, said police. Responding EMS pronounced the man dead at the scene.

Another resident of the home, 32-year old Jahmorley O. Gayle, was taken into custody at the scene. The brother of the deceased, Johmorley has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, according to the NYPD.

In a neighborhood that used to see over 100 murders a year, that number was down to a mere 11 homicides in 2017.

The four-month stretch of 2018 preceding Gayle’s death this weekend was the longest stretch without a murder the neighborhood had seen since the police department started modern CompStat recording keeping in 1993.