Unhinged NYC man busted for shooting neighbor with crossbow
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An unhinged man shot his neighbor with a crossbow in Brooklyn early Wednesday morning, cops said.

According to police and sources, Joseph English, aged 64, reportedly approached the victim in the early morning darkness around 4:40 a.m. outside their building on Hanson Place in Fort Greene and made threats.

“I’m going to shoot you,” English coolly warned before firing an arrow at at the 54-year-old man, according to the police sources.


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The shooting happened outside this Fort Greene apartment building where both the suspect and the victim lived, cops said. Google Maps

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Both men told cops they live at 67 Hanson place but the men did not know each other prior to the shooting, according to police. Google Maps

The victim was hit in the left hip.

He was treated at the scene for minor injuries, a police spokesperson said.

Described by sources as “emotionally disturbed,” English was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and menacing following the alarming incident.

Cops described the two men as “strangers” to one another although they lived in the same building.

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