Woman fatally shot after asking man to stop setting off fireworks

A Brooklyn woman is dead after she was shot after confronting a man setting off illegal fireworks in Brooklyn.  Shatavia Walls, 33, who was peppered with gunfire July 7 after asking the man to stop setting off fireworks. A Wayne Carrington image

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Brooklyn NY woman fatally shot after asking a man to stop setting off fireworks.

The Brooklyn woman and her male companion asked a man to stop setting off fireworks on July 7 shortly after sunset. 

The pyromaniac left the scene, only to return with a gun and shoot the woman and her male companion while they were trying to flee the gunman. 

She subsequently succumbed to her injuries on July 17.

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Several weeks before the female victim’s fatal shooting, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said that setting off illegal pyrotechnics is a “nonviolent act.”

Adams went on to urge residents to “go talk to the young people or the people on your block who are using fireworks” instead of calling 911 or 311 and so avoid “heavy-handed policing.”

“Stopping fireworks cannot turn into fireworks between the police and the community,” added Adams.

The deceased woman subsequently made the apparently fatal do it herself mistake of asking the man, who remains at large, to cease firing off his fireworks.

Gunfire has exploded across the city after the NYPD disbanded its anti-crime unit of plainclothes officers tasked to address street violence on June 15 as a part of various police defunding initiatives, including touted social justice releases of incarcerated individuals, largely imposed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.  

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In the wake of these actions, three times as many shootings have occurred in the first two weeks of July as compared to the same time period last year.

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