A young man was fatally shot in Brooklyn Tuesday — just hours after an unrelated barrage of bullets left a 15-year-old boy dead and another teen wounded, police said.
Police raced to a building on Lefferts Ave. near New York Ave. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens after gunshots rang out just after 6 p.m., cops said.
A witness to the shooting told the Daily News a large fight in which the victim was involved started outside the building.
“A bunch of kids were arguing and then they came inside the building to fight,” said the man, who asked not to be named. “When they went back out, it was three shots and a kid was hit on the sidewalk.”
When officers arrived, they found the 21-year-old victim with multiple gunshot wounds to the back.
Medics rushed him to nearby Kings County Hospital, but he could not be saved. His name was not immediately released.
The bloodshed came less than three hours after a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head and a 16-year-old boy was hit in the shoulder about a mile away — on E. 93rd St. near Rutland Road in East Flatbush — just before 3:35 p.m., cops said.
The 15-year-old also died at Kings County Hospital, while the older boy was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and is expected to recover.
There were no immediate arrests in either shooting.