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A federal prosecutor was caught in a hail of bullets while out for a night at a restaurant in Brooklyn.
Mollie Bracewell, 34, who works in the Manhattan US Attorney’s office, was struck by a stray bullet Friday night while she was at Muse Thai restaurant.
The Harvard Law graduate felt pain in her left eye. Later, an X-ray taken at Kings County Hospital found that a bullet fragment had lodged under her eye.
As she was sending diners to seek shelter when at least four shots rang out, another bystander was also hit.
Benjamin Bustamante, a 31-year-old man, was just strolling through the trendy Washington Avenue restaurant when he was shot in the foot. He was taken to Methodist Hospital.
The shooting occurred after an argument between two rival gangs turned violent, according to the New York Post.
Arrested and Charged
A 17-year-old man was arrested in connection with the shooting and charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Police are now trying to establish whether he fired the shots.
Bracewell had worked cases in the narcotics and general crimes units of the US Attorney’s office. She had also prosecuted s*x trafficking.
“The glass door was shot and the glass door was broken,” said Muse manager Onvadee Bunsri, describing the chaotic scene. The customers were lying on the ground. Everyone was lying on the ground.
‘This is really scary. She was just eating,’ Bunsri said, referring to Bracewell.
The latest shooting is part of a dramatic increase in gun violence in New York City in recent months.
Shootings are up 82 percent compared to last year.
There have been 490 shootings as of May 16 compared to 270 during the same period last year according to statistics released by the NYPD.
There have been a total of 146 murders in New York City in 2021 as of May 9 compared to 115 for the same date in 2020, an increase of 27%.
“Unfortunately, it doesn’t take a federal prosecutor getting shot dining cookouts for the Mayor, City Council, Corey Johnson, and his gang of police activists to defund the police to admit they’ve gone too far,” he said. Retired NYPD Sgt. Joseph Giacalone. to The Mail.
“Shootings and murders have devastated minority neighborhoods in the past year and their silence has been deafening.”
Mollie Bracewell Quick and Facts
- Federal prosecutor Mollie Bracewell, 34, was struck in the eye by a bullet
- Benjamin Bustamante, a 31-year-old man was also shot in the foot in incident
- Shooting occurred after an argument between two rival gangs turned violent
- There have been 490 shootings until May 16 compared to 270 during the same period last year according to stats released by the NYPD
