Brian Laird on WNYC, now as usual on Wednesdays, our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim, with fresh excerpts and analysis from the Mayor's Tuesday News conference, which he does every week, the only

time each week that he takes questions from reporters about topics of their choosing.

And Liz, as usual, will help take your calls and texts if you have any reactions or questions.

Today, a post-West Indian Day parade debrief, as well as some questions about 3K and more.

And despite a fatal shooting that left four others injured, the mayor and other city officials

are largely downplaying violence at the parade, and crediting the NYPD for its work to keep

the parade largely safe. Also also a real decline in August shootings

in Brooklyn in general. So we'll hear clips and take your calls at 212-433 WNYC. Hey Liz, hope you enjoyed

your two weeks off. Welcome back. Glad to have you with us. Happy Wednesday.

I'm happy to be back, Brian. Thank you.

And yesterday was in large part a debrief about the West Indian Day parade. I'm not sure what the final count was, but more than a million New Yorkers, including Mayor Adams, had been expected to attend Monday's parade.

Unfortunately,

there was that fatal shooting that also left four others injured. We'll listen to a clip of the

mayor yesterday talking about that incident and the NYPD's work over the weekend. But first,

what do we know about the shooting or the shooter? So just to update you, Brian, and as well as the listeners, so five people were shot,

but one person, a 25-year-old man named Denzel Chan, actually died from his injury on Tuesday.

So there was a fatality as a result of the violence that occurred alongside the parade on Monday.

And here's the mayor speaking about that yesterday.

How do you stop a nut from taking a gun shooting to a crowd of five people?

We were proactive.

25 guns removed off the street just in those small days, 25 guns.

So no telling how many shootings we prevented.

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