At least 8 hurt in shootings, stabbings near NYC’s notorious West Indian Day Parade

At least eight people were wounded in shootings and stabbings around the route of the notoriously violent West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn on Monday — including a costumed woman who took a bullet to her leg, police and law-enforcement sources said.

The injured 37-year-old woman — dressed in an orange-and-gold feathered outfit — was one of three people shot during the mayhem.

“It’s no fun anymore. They won’t stop the shooting,’’ a dismayed bystander said of the criminals causing the annual violence.

Another three men were stabbed and two slashed during the parade’s early-morning J’ouvert pre-festivities.

A shooting victim is treated by NYPD officers in front of 798 Nostrand Ave. near the West Indian Day Parade route in Brooklyn on Monday.

NYPD officers responding to the shooting on 798 Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn

Bullets flew about 4 p.m. around 800 Nostrand Ave. in Crown Heights near the route, when a 24-year-old man was shot in the butt, according to sources.

“There were a bunch of people fighting at the top of the block. … And then all of the sudden, you hear, ‘Pop, pop,’” said a witness named Edward.

The injured man was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, according to sources.

Pictures showed cops taking someone into custody at the scene.

Another man and the woman were then shot at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue along the route just a little after 4 p.m, sources said.

The woman was seen with a tourniquet wrapped around her foot as she was sitting on the pavement, speaking to cops.

At one point, she was talking on her phone, witnesses said.

A person is taken into custody near the route.

Blood seen on the shoes of a person involved in the shooting on Eastern Parkway at Kingston Ave. on Monday.

“She grimaced in pain, but she wasn’t crying,’’ the first bystander said.

The man wounded in the same shooting, a 19-year-old, was grazed by bullets on both of his legs, law-enforcement sources said.

The pair were transported to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, sources said.

Cops are still looking for the shooter in the second blasting, according to sources.

The shootings occurred in the same area hours after the stabbings and slashings, which happened just before the parade was set to kick off, according to police.

A person under arrest near the West Indian Day Parade route.

People participate in J’Ouvert early Monday, ahead of the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.

A 32-year-old man and another 23-year-old victim were stabbed in the neck, while a 36-year-old was stabbed in the face and a 20-year-old slashed in the chin near Carroll Street and Utica Avenue near the parade route around 5:48 a.m., cops said.

EMS responded and rushed the three older people to Kings County Hospital, where the 32-year-old man was initially listed in critical condition. By late Monday afternoon, all of the victims, including the 20-year-old, who was taken to KCH by private means, were stable, sources said.

No arrests have been made, cops said.

Then a 25-year-old man was slashed in the face a few minutes later, about 6 a.m., around Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue on the route, cops said. He was taken by private means to Interfaith Medical Center in stable condition.

No arrests have been made in that case, either, police said.

The violence happened just blocks from the J’Ouvert Festival, which began at 6 a.m. and ran until the parade kicked off at 11 a.m.

Police said the parade was promptly shut down at 5:30 p.m. — a decision made after six people were shot during last year’s festivities, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

“Thousands of NYPD cops will be on the parade routes and in the surrounding neighborhoods from Sunday night through Monday. This is one of our department’s largest deployments of the year at this time,” she said Friday.

The annual festivities, which celebrate Caribbean culture, have been marred by violence over the years.

In 2015, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo aide Carey Gabay was fatally shot in the head during the 2015 festivities after getting caught in gang crossfire.

The following year, two people — a 22-year-old St. John’s University student and a 17-year-old were fatally shot in the chest.

In another horrific incident in 2011, Brooklyn mom Denise Gay, 56, was killed while shielding her family from gunfire as she sat on the stoop of her Crown Heights home.

Source: https://nypost.com/2026/09/07/us-news/2-women-shot-in-separate-incidents-near-nycs-west-indian-day-parade-route-adding-to-days-violence/