Five people were shot when a gunman in Crown Heights "fired his weapon numerous times into a crowd," NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said.
The suspect was not in custody.
Two of the shooting victims were in critical condition. The others were expected to survive, police said. Four victims are male and one is female, we're told.
The shooting happened at around 1:45 p.m. on a sidewalk near Eastern Parkway between Classon and Franklin avenues.
"This was an intentional act by one person towards a group of people. We do not, by no means, have any active shooter or anything of that nature running around Eastern Parkway as we speak. The parade is going on. It will go on until later on tonight," Chell said.
The parade is a Labor Day tradition in Brooklyn and considered one of the borough's biggest events of the year. It was not disrupted by the shooting.
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