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A wild Brooklyn party dubbed “Freaky Friday” ended in bloodshed yesterday when a group of gangbangers opened fire on the crowd, killing one and leaving seven others wounded, police said.
Donzell “Zelly” Rogers, 20, was shot dead in front of 325 Wyona St. in East New York during the 3:15 a.m. ambush, which left victims splayed on the street, sidewalk and inside the brownstone.
Rogers, who has a 1-year-old son, “looked like a fish out of water,” said witness Dennis Fitzgerald, 28. “His body was jumping. He seemed to be trying to find some air.”
Fitzgerald said the house turned into a “stadium of death” as frightened partygoers frantically fled the cross hairs of the enraged gunmen. Some even left their shoes behind.
The bullets were still flying when cops showed up at the grisly scene. In all, around 20 shots were fired.
Three suspects were being questioned at the 75th Precinct station house, but no one had been charged as of last night.
The mayhem began when two men with a long-simmering feud bumped into each other on a staircase. One of the eventual gunmen intervened and was sucker-punched, Fitzgerald said.
He was sent flying into Fitzgerald and others in the tightly packed party house.
“I threw him off me. He fell on people and regained his balance, and he spun around and pulled the gun out,” Fitzgerald said. “Then he waved it in a circle in the air, and then he let it off.”
The armed madman then fired at random as he made his way to the back yard, leaving behind a trail of wailing, begging and stampeding partygoers.
“A guy got shot on the right of me and landed on me. Blood splattered on me,” Fitzgerald said. “You could hear the bullets whizzing, ricocheting off the walls.”
Some in the crowd broke down a 6-foot-tall wooden fence and draped sarongs over glass shards topping a cement wall next door as they vaulted to safety.
After leaving the yard, the gunman re-entered the house and started shooting again.
Police found a 9mm handgun tucked underneath a bush and recovered a .40-caliber pistol from three fleeing thugs.
Those men, ages 20, 21 and 28, were taken in for questioning. They are believed to be members of a street gang known as “Very Crispy Gangsters.”
The eight wounded — including Robert Jordan, 19, Dominique Bennett, 20, and Donald Griffin 33 — were taken to Brookdale and two other hospitals.
The identified victims have a laundry list of prior felony arrests that include drugs, gang assaults, robberies and manslaughter, police said.
This was the second party thrown by the first-floor tenants, who were trying to raise rent money by charging a $5 cover.
The Freaky Friday bash was advertised on cards handed out around the neighborhood and touted scantily clad women such as “Miss Prissy” and “Slim Goodie.”
Police questioned resident Ann Bryant about selling alcohol and charging admission.
“I can have liquor in my house. I wasn’t charging for shots, the DJ was. She left with a wallet full of rent!” Bryant said. “I was in the bedroom when the shots went off. I hid there until it stopped.”
Additional reporting by Doug Auer and Candice M. Giove