Around 2:00 AM Sunday morning last weekend while I was leaving Elsewhere, I was crossing the street on Flushing and Wyckoff, when all of the sudden I heard shots fire. By the time I saw where it was coming from, there was a man sitting in the backseat of a moving car with the window rolled down, staring me in the eyes with a paintball gun aimed at my head. I saw my life flash before my eyes and was shot directly in the face on my left cheek.

This was a completely random attack, I was walking alone but surrounded by other groups of people leaving clubs and food trucks. He only aimed at me and then drove off as I was screaming and running for the sidewalk. I don't know weather or not I was targeted as a gay person but I can't entirely rule it out either. I filed a police report and there is an investigator trying to obtain security cam footage as we speak.

Please be extra careful around the house of yes and elsewhere areas by the Jefferson L stop. I have a strong suspicion that if this person does not get caught, this type of thing will continue happening and I do not want anyone to go through what I had to experience. I am okay physically and did not need to be hospitalized thankfully. I just have a very ugly, swollen and sore welt on my face. I feel so lucky the bullet missed my eye, otherwise I don't know how functional I would be right now.