The victim, a 37-year-old man, was found shot in the chest at about 9:15 p.m. at the Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, behind a Park Ave. building near Tompkins Ave.

Two men were shot and killed within hours of each other in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, police said as they searched for multiple suspects.

A New York teen is trying to put his life back together after he was wrongly identified as a suspect in a mass shooting.

A 38-year-old New Jersey man was shot dead on a residential street in Brooklyn early Thursday, police said. The victim, Brandon Sylvester, is from Englewood. It wasn’t immediately clear why he was in Brooklyn.