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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- BREAKING: Suspected gunman Sundance Oliver is successful constabulary custody aft turning himself successful astatine the 77th Precinct.
This is simply a breaking quality update. Earlier communicative below.
A monolithic manhunt is underway successful New York City for a 28-year-old antheral suspected successful a drawstring of 3 shootings, including the fatal shootings of a 17-year-old miss successful a Crown Heights flat and a 21-year-old antheral successful Lower Manhattan.
Sundance Oliver is believed to person changeable the young pistillate wrong an flat wrong the Kingsborough Houses connected Kingsborough 7 Walk conscionable aft 12:15 a.m. Tuesday.
He is suspected of opening occurrence wrong a crowded apartment, striking the 17 twelvemonth old.
He past fled connected foot, sparking a manhunt and a large-scale Level 3 mobilization by the NYPD.
The 17 twelvemonth aged who was killed is believed to person been present, and perchance the intended victim, of Oliver's archetypal shooting, adjacent astatine Bergen Street and Rochester Avenue.
The gunman robbed a pistillate of her overgarment and currency conscionable earlier 9:35 a.m. Monday erstwhile she fled and helium opened fire.
He missed the pistillate but alternatively struck a 96-year-old antheral successful the leg. The unfortunate was successful a motorized wheelchair, waiting for the bus.
He was taken to Kings County Hospital successful unchangeable condition.
Hours later, Oliver is believed to person changeable a 21-year-old man, identified arsenic Kevon Langston, wrong the Al Smith Houses astatine 15 St James Place connected Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Langston was changeable successful the thorax and limb successful an flat conscionable earlier 2:50 p.m. He was pronounced dormant astatine Bellevue Hospital.
Police released a representation of Oliver and issued a citywide alert for him.
"He is simply a airy skinned antheral black, 28 years old, astir 6'2" gangly with a slim build," said NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell astatine an overnight quality conference. "He has the letters M and G tattooed beneath his close eye, and ample greenish roseate angiosperm tattoo connected the close broadside of his cervix and the words 'rich 4 ever' supra it. He is considered equipped and highly dangerous."
Anyone who sees him is urged not to attack Oliver and to interaction police.
Call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline astatine 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) oregon for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You tin besides taxable tips by visiting the CrimeStoppers website astatine crimestoppers.nypdonline.org oregon by messaging connected Twitter @NYPDTips.
Oliver has 12 anterior arrests, including for transgression possession of a weapon, 2 anterior arrests for robbery, 2 anterior arrests for menacing and assorted different charges.
He is presently connected parole, released from authorities situation successful Seneca County successful July 2020.
He volition beryllium connected parole until March 2023.
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