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A Brooklyn man was killed by a driver in Red Hook on Wednesday night the second hit-and-run fatality in the borough in less than 24 hours.
Police said Imorne Horton, a 31-year-old resident of the Red Hook Houses, was discovered lying in the street at Hamilton Avenue and Court Street, a heavily-trafficked multi-lane roadway under the elevated Gowanus Expressway. He was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital just before 7 p.m., and he was pronounced dead on Wednesday evening.
Friends of Horton s told the Daily News that Horton was a special needs man who grew up in the NYCHA building.
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Imorne Horton was found sprawled on the roadway with extensive injuries to his head and body after the Carroll Gardens crash around 6:40 pm. Wednesday, police said. Medics rushed him to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he died.
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The 28-year-old victim was shot in the upper body around 3:10 a.m. at the Red Hook Houses, in front of one of a building on Columbia St. near Bush St., cops said.