In the summer of 2019, a man from Brooklyn named Julius Caesar lost his life in a violent encounter on the streets of Crown Heights. At 31 years of age, the male victim was fatally shot in the head on the evening of Monday, July 8th. The incident unfolded around 5:40 p.m. on Union Street, near Utica Avenue, where Caesar was seated in a car.
Following the shooting, an attempt was made to drive to Kings County Hospital for help.
However, the vehicle only made it about five blocks before crashing at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Midwood Street. Emergency medical services responded to the scene of the crash and transported Caesar to the hospital, but his injuries proved to be fatal, and he died there. Another individual who was in the car, a 29-year-old male driving the vehicle, was grazed in the chest during the barrage of eight or nine shots fired at them.
A few days later, an arrest was made in connection with the fatal shooting. On Thursday, July 11, police took 24-year-old Terrell Winters of Brownsville into custody. Winters was subsequently charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon for his alleged role in the death of Julius Caesar.
