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‘Enough is enough!’ after fatal shooting at Channel Park Homes

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About 10 minutes before she saw 28-year-old Long Beach resident Tyrenzo Brown stumble outside her apartment at 5 Birch Court in the Channel Park Homes early last Saturday, Gail Robinson said she heard three gunshots.

“I don’t know [if it was related], but everybody heard it,” she said. “Ten minutes later, you heard one shot. And once I jumped up out of my bed, I went to the window, and when I got to the window, I saw he stumbled because he got shot in his leg. And then all the rest of the shots just started coming — pow, pow, pow, pow.”

Robinson, a 44-year resident at Channel Park, said she screamed and ran downstairs, only to find several people entering the building, seeking cover.

“They ran up into my house, and if they didn’t … they could’ve gotten shot just as well — everyone was trying to get out of there,” she said. “The boy didn’t have to get killed like that. I’m sorry, that’s still someone’s child.”

According to Long Beach Police Commissioner Mike Tangney, Brown was with a group of people that night after he visited his daughter, when, at around 12:42 a.m., someone opened fire. He was shot multiple times.

“There was a group of people at the exterior at 5 Birch Court, and he had been visiting his daughter earlier,” Tangney said. “It was really a sudden attack.”

Police and firefighters responded to the scene, and Brown was taken by Long Beach Fire Department ambulance to South Nassau Communities Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Nassau County Police Department’s Homicide Squad and the Long Beach Police Department are seeking the public’s help with information about the murder. Though Tangney would not say whether police had a suspect or a motive, he added that he was confident the case would be “resolved.”

The latest shooting comes after Channel Park residents held a number of rallies and vigils calling for an end to the gun violence that has erupted at the apartment complex over the past year. There have also been a number of community meetings with police and city officials to address safety concerns.

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