Ex-con busted in fatal shooting at Brooklyn housing development

Police respond to the scene of a shooting outside 9 Monument Walk in Brooklyn on Sunday, the most recent violence in recent weeks.
Police respond to the scene of a shooting outside 9 Monument Walk in Brooklyn on Sunday, the most recent violence in recent weeks.


A convicted drug dealer faces murder charges, accused of fatally shooting one man and wounding another in a Brooklyn housing development.
Earl Morgan, 50, was busted Tuesday and charged in the May 30 killing of Joheem Hamilton, 25, inside a Monument Walk building near Navy St. in Fort Greene, part of the Ingersoll Houses.
Morgan shot Hamilton in the stomach and another man, 36, in the back, cops said. Both victims retreated to an eighth-floor apartment.
Medics took Hamilton to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital but he could not be saved. The other victim went to Brooklyn Hospital.
An NYPD spokeswoman couldn’t provide a motive for the shooting Tuesday night.
Morgan served state prison time for drug convictions in 1995 and 2005, public records show.
He awaits arraignment in Brooklyn criminal court.
Just seven days later, on June 7, another shooting killed a 30-year-old man on Monument Walk, outside the same housing development. Police have made no arrests in that case.

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