Police found 24-year-old Jayden Smith with gunshot wounds to the torso inside a club on Alabama Ave. near Stanley Ave. in East New York, around 4 a.m. on Sunday. Medics rushed Smith to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to cops.
Police said the shooting erupted at 1061 Home St., the site of the El Palenque nightclub, in Longwood just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 14. Officers from the 42nd Precinct responded to the location after receiving calls about gunfire. When they arrived, they located two victims: a 36-year-old man shot in the stomach, and a 38-year-old man who was shot once in both legs.
Four people were killed and 14 others were hospitalized after a drive-by shooting outside a nightclub in Chicago's River North neighborhood, with at least three in critical condition.