CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A father of two children was fatally shot in the head, two 16-year-old girls were prostituted against their will, another man was killed outside a corner deli — a single Crown Heights block has seen a two year crime wave and its residents are tired of it.

"There has been a rash of criminal activity on Lincoln Place," said Christopher Weiss, who has lived on the street between Franklin and Classon avenues since 2014. "The randomness of the recent violence makes it feel more threatening." The Lincoln Place block has become so dangerous that even superheroes dare not go there, Weiss said. The Netflix series "Luke Cage" was scheduled to film at Glady's — a Caribbean food restaurant on the Franklin Avenue corner — on July 21, but canceled after a man was shot nearby the night before, he said.

Netflix didn't confirm the reason the "Unbreakable Man" didn't return, but Weiss said, "I woke up in the middle of the night to what turned out to be shots and there was a guy lying on the sidewalk." The expected film crew, which had appeared on the block earlier that month, failed to arrive the next day, he said.

"Shooting delayed by shooting," he said.

The crime spree began in March 2016 when 22-year-old Marlon Shuffler, a father of a 5-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son, was shot dead outside 541 Lincoln Place, DNAinfo reported at the time.



"He was a good guy, a good son, a good father," his aunt, Katrina Glover, 45, told DNAinfo. "I'm tired of coming to Franklin Avenue. I'm tired of losing part of my history. I'm tired of burying my friends, my family."

Crime returned to the block off Franklin Avenue a year later, in July 2017, when police rescued two 16-year-old girls being held as sex slaves in a Lincoln Place apartment, the Daily News reported.

"I wouldn't want that to happen to nobody," said Tasha Daniely, 41, who lived on the same floor as the illegal brothel. "There's so many crazy things going on in this world, but that's really unusual and that's really close." The girls' alleged kidnappers — Antwan Green, 27, Denina Roman, 21, and Taymel Harris, 20 – have been charged with sex trafficking, court records show. Sources later told the Daily News that the NYPD was investigating a local gang to try and figure out how many girls had been forced into prostitution.