The death in Brownsville was one of four deadly shootings that took place in the city early Labor Day morning. At about the same time as the incident in Brownsville, a 50-year-old woman was killed in Flatbush, Brooklyn. About an hour later, in Bushwick, a man was fatally shot in the chest. At 4:30 a.m., a drive-by shooting took place outside a nightclub in Richmond Hill, Queens, killing one man and injuring two others.

The Flatbush shooting happened just a few hours before J’ouvert, daybreak festivities that take place in Brooklyn to ring in the annual West Indian American Day Parade . It was not clear if it was connected to the J’ouvert celebration, which has had issues with violence in the past and proceeded without incident Monday amid heavy security.

The Brownsville incident was also the second fatal shooting in the past several days involving a man taking aim at New York City police officers who were attempting to stop him. On Friday, a gunman in Jamaica, Queens, was killed by police after he fired at officers seeking to question him about a gang-related shooting.

In a Monday news conference, Chief Terence A. Monahan of the New York City Police Department said that the Labor Day shootout in Brownsville began when police saw the masked man, in his 30s, during a regular overnight patrol.