NEW YORK – A motorcyclist allegedly detonated a commercial-grade explosive in front of a Brooklyn apartment door, smashing windows and at least one door before turning around and smashing car windshields early Friday morning, according to the district attorney. Township.
A report about the explosion at the three-story building on Madison Street in Stuyvesant Heights came in around 8 a.m. The FDNY only said it received a call about the smoke 15 minutes earlier.
“I would call it a firecracker, but it was bigger than that,” District Attorney Eric Gonzalez told reporters near the scene hours later.
“There is video of the incident. We can see him ignite the explosive device, blow out the windows, damage an interior door, knock on the door of an unrelated victim in the case,” González added.
Police officers say they have identified the person of interest who sped away from the apartment on an all-terrain motorcycle, but not before damaging more than a dozen cars on the block.
González and investigators believe the suspect struck approximately 14 cars parked along the street from the apartment with a hammer.
Detectives are still reconstructing a possible motive for the suspect’s strange and dangerous behavior, but officials at the scene say the person in question has two children in common with a woman who lives down that street.
No arrests have been made and there were no immediate reports of injuries.
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