NEW YORK – For the third night in a row, shooters reigned in all five New York boroughs, leaving several people injured, including a teenager in the Bronx on Wednesday night, who was clinging to life after being rushed to the hospital.
The shots rang out around 5 p.m. in the Williamsbridge neighborhood, during an apparent shooting from a vehicle along Burke Avenue. Two armed men in the back of a black van opened fire on four people, some of whom were innocent bystanders, police said. At least eight shots are believed to have been fired.
Two of the four victims are teenagers, according to police. One of them, an 18-year-old young man, was shot in the head and is in critical condition. A woman who claimed to be the teenager’s aunt arrived at the scene a few hours after the incident, desperate to find out what happened to her nephew.
The other three victims are expected to survive, police said. At least two of them, a 60-year-old woman who was shot in the thigh and a 26-year-old man working nearby who was shot in the ribs, appeared to have been unwanted targets.
The fourth victim, a 15-year-old boy, was shot in the buttocks.
Detectives who searched the scene found an imitation pistol near where the 18-year-old was. Several bullet casings were strewn across the street.
Investigators said the truck made a U-turn after the shooting and sped away. The motive for the shooting is not yet clear. None of the victims have a criminal record and police are searching for the suspects seen leaving the area in the vehicle.
The latest shooting incident comes after four people were shot at a deli in Harlem on Monday, and after three more were shot downtown Tuesday night in what is believed to be a gang-related incident, according to police.
Three people with violent criminal records were arrested in connection with the latest incident, which resulted from an altercation inside a location rented for a rap performance on West 38th Street. One video showed a dark car double-parked outside the club, and four men could be seen walking towards another vehicle as two people inside the dark car got in and began shooting. The other men replied
Police confirmed that a 27-year-old man was shot in the stomach and a 24-year-old man was shot in the chest Tuesday night. The third victim, a 19-year-old man, was found with a gunshot wound to the leg further east. Three guns were recovered at the scene and all of the men who were shot are expected to recover.
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