Crown Heights Carnival Shooting: Two Wounded in Brooklyn, New York

BROOKLYN, New York — Two people were wounded in separate shooting incidents Monday afternoon in , Brooklyn, during the annual Labor Day parade that draws hundreds of thousands of participants each year.

Both victims were hospitalized in stable condition and are expected to survive, according to reports from the local news site COLIVE.

The shootings occurred despite an unprecedented security deployment by the New York Police Department.

The first incident took place near the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place, north of the main Eastern Parkway thoroughfare.