The man accused of shooting another man at this week’s West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn was out on bail on attempted murder charges stemming from a separate shooting.
New York Police Department officials said they arrested Nayshawn Wilkinson, 19, in the shooting Monday that pierced a man’s rear end.
The 24-year-old victim was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive the bullet wound, police said.
Mr. Wilkinson faces charges of attempted manslaughter, assault and weapons violations in connection with the incident.
Investigators did not say if the victim was the intended target of the shooting that erupted two blocks from the parade route in the Crown Heights neighborhood.
Surveillance footage from nearby businesses showed crowdgoers scatter as a gunman opened fire while the event was winding down.
Court documents said Mr. Wilkinson was charged in a July shooting that left a 15-year-old boy wounded.
Prosecutors said the suspect shot at the boy twice near a playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant and left the victim with a bullet wound in his foot.
Police arrested Mr. Wilkinson in connection with the July shooting almost two weeks later and charged him with attempted murder, assault, harassment and gun offenses.
Prosecutors urged the judge to keep him behind bars, according to court records, but the judge released the teen suspect on $5,000 bail.
Mr. Wilkinson made his first court appearance for the parade shooting Wednesday. He returns to court for the July shooting Monday.
The Labor Day shooting allegedly involving Mr. Wilkinson was one of several violent outbursts linked to the parade’s festivities.
Police said four people were stabbed around 5:45 a.m. Monday in Crown Heights shortly before a pre-parade ceremony called J’Ouvert, or daybreak, celebration was scheduled to begin.
Authorities said the victims, all of whom are men and range in age from 20 to 36, are expected to survive the knife wounds.
Another shooting broke out just after 4 p.m., with a woman and a man suffering bullet wounds to their legs. Police said both are expected to survive.
Mayhem disrupted the cultural gathering, despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani taking extra measures to protect the annual event that he said “has been accompanied by unacceptable violence, making it difficult for New Yorkers to celebrate joyfully and safely.”
Police said six people were shot and one person was stabbed during the 2025 celebration.
And in 2024, a shooter killed one man and wounded five others in an erratic shooting mid-parade.
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