Brooklyn shooting kills three

 NEW YORK: Three people were fatally shot and two New York City police officers were wounded on Monday night in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. One of the victims was a bystander, a 56-year-old woman, sitting on a stoop near where the violence erupted.

The shootings followed a weekend rife with gun violence. More than 30 people were wounded by firearms in the city over the holiday weekend, the authorities said.

The shooting on Monday night occurred just after 9 pm on Park Place near Franklin Avenue. The police said Leroy Webster, 32, a man described by officials as having an extensive criminal record, emerged from a building on Park Place with a Ruger 9 mm gun, which he fired at Eusi Johnson, 29, who was walking by with his cousin. Webster shot Johnson in the neck, killing him.

Webster also killed the bystander, Denise Gay, who died immediately, the police said, with her adult daughter next to her on a nearby stoop.

The police said Webster fired on officers who were in the area because of the West Indian Day Parade, which took place earlier in the day about four blocks away.

He was then killed by the police, they said.

Early Tuesday morning, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the injured officers were Omar Medina, 35, who had shrapnel in his arm and side, and Avichaim Dicken, 29, whose left elbow was grazed by a bullet.

A 23-year-old bystander in Crown Heights who gave his name only as Peter said that Webster and Johnson had a prior disagreement that night.