Charlie O’Donnell said he called the police yesterday afternoon after hearing the gunshots in Downtown Brooklyn that sent one man to the hospital.
The shooting — in broad daylight, at a busy intersection outside the Barclays Center — has been all over the news this week. Police are still looking for the shooter.
O’Donnell, a lifelong Brooklynite and the founder at venture capital fund Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, took a moment to reflect on the experience on his blog, This Is Going To Be Big.
“I didn’t grow up in a neighborhood where gunshots were a thing—and I know I am incredibly lucky for that,” he wrote. “That’s why when I pulled up to the corner of Atlantic and Fourth by the Barclay’s Center yesterday at a couple of minutes after 2pm, the sound of gunfire was pretty startling, and it’s not something I can easily shake.”
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