NYPD Identifies Suspect In Triple Shooting At Ingersoll Houses In Brooklyn

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Authorities have released the photo of a suspect wanted in connection with a triple shooting at a public housing complex in Brooklyn last September.

The shooting happened just before 2 a.m. on Sept. 20 at the Ingersoll Houses on the edge of downtown Brooklyn.

Calvin Clinkscales, 43, of Queens; Lacount Simmons, 39, of Brooklyn; and Herbert Brown, 76, of Brooklyn were killed, police said.

Shortly after the shooting, authorities released surveillance video of the suspect. Cameras initially captured him lingering by recycling bins at the public housing complex. Then police said he was seen running away from the scene.

But it wasn't until Tuesday that police identified the suspect as 31-year-old Allen Cooper, who also goes by the name "Pike."

The deaths of Clinkscales, Simmons, and Brown came at a time of heightened gun violence in New York City. The men were three of at least eight people who were killed that weekend amid 13 separate shootings.