NEW YORK – Several shootings in New York City, which occurred in a span of three hours on Monday, left one person dead and at least four injured, police said.
One of the shootings occurred just before 6:00 p.m. along Rockaway Parkway nearly Rutland Road in Brownsville, police said. Two people were shot outside a liquor store, one in the abdomen and one in the leg, according to police. Their terms were not immediately clear.
Less than two hours before that, another shooting had broken out in Brooklyn, this time in Canarsie. Police said 24-year-old Nelson Ortiz was shot twice in the chest outside a deli on Avenue L and died from his wounds.
Even earlier that day, about an hour before the deadly shooting in Canarsie, a shooting was reported in the Bronx, according to police. A man was shot in the head near the Bronx office of New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in the Baychester neighborhood.
A witness described hearing four shots in Fenton Avenuenear East Gun Hill Road, all in the middle of the day.
The victim was said to be in critical condition at the hospital. Police say the suspected shooter fled in a white BMW sedan.
No arrests have been made in any of the three cases, and police investigations are ongoing.
Anyone with information that could lead to an arrest is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-888-57-PISTA.
