A woman is in critical condition after being shot in the head at a Brooklyn playground. As alecia__reid reports, the gunfire erupted near a school, prompting students to go on lockdown for hours.
"It's very scary for me," Marine Park resident Vivan Antebi said.As CBS2's Alecia Reid reports, police say Shatyra Wingate was found sitting on a bench. The 25-year-old mother was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she's listed in critical condition.
A man who witnesses say is Wingate's child's father was apprehended by police at Nostrand and Avenue V, and the child is now in the care of authorities.The gunfire sparked confusion at the school adjacent to the playground. Frustrated parents had to wait hours to pick their children up from the Millennium after-school program.
The Department of Education said in a statement,"The safety of our students is our absolute top priority. Following an off-campus non-school related incident in the community, this school went into a shelter-in, which has now been lifted.""They're sometimes outside, and it's still warm, so they do be out in that specific yard that the incident did happen," parent Shakiel Maingot said.
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