A 21-year-old man was fatally shot in broad daylight Wednesday afternoon on a Brooklyn street corner — just over a mile from an event at which Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams decried surging gun violence, cops said.
The victim, whose identity was not immediately released, was struck by two bullets to his torso, one to his shoulder and one in his leg at East 53rd Street and Clarkson Avenue around 2:20 p.m., according to police.
He was rushed from the East Flatbush corner to nearby Kings County Hospital, but died from his wounds.
There were no immediate arrests in the slaying.
The slaying happened shortly after a 12:45 press conference at the Lenox Road Baptist Church on Nostrand Avenue in which Cuomo and Adams — a former NYPD cop likely to be the next mayor of New York — vowed to tackle the city’s troubling gun violence spike together.
“We have thrown up our hands and we have surrendered our city,” Adams said in part. “It’s time for us to ensure our city is for the working-class, everyday people.”