Bullets fly at South Bronx housing project, 1 dead

Police say one man is dead and two are injured after a Saturday shootout at a South Bronx housing project.A fight near a basketball court turned deadly for a 25-year-old father nicknamed ?Flip.? Police

News 12 Staff

Aug 20, 2006, 2:33 AM

Updated 6,626 days ago

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Police say one man is dead and two are injured after a Saturday shootout at a South Bronx housing project.A fight near a basketball court turned deadly for a 25-year-old father nicknamed ?Flip.? Police say he was shot and killed at the William McKinley Houses. Witnesses say they saw victims running through the complex. The man leaves behind a one-year-old daughter.
At around the time of the shootings, EMS workers reported that another man was admitted to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital with a gunshot wound. It was unclear whether that man was involved in the housing project shooting.