A brazen pair of shooters opened fire on six men outside a Bronx park Wednesday night, police said.
The shooting victims were hanging around 8:15 p.m. outside a Bronx building near St. James Park, near E. 191st St. and Morris Ave., when two men arrived and immediately opened fire.
“There were several people hanging under the scaffolding,” Patrol Borough Bronx Commander Benjamin Gurley said. “Two men, one with a helmet, one without, come through St. James Park, they park a scooter in the park and they come up the stairs. They firing about nine shots at the group hanging out, hitting six people.”
The injuries varied.
The victims’ injuries included a gunshot wound to the stomach of a 20-year-old victim; a shot in the right hand of a 25-year-old man; a shot in the groin of a 23-year-old victim; and a shot in the right thigh of a 24-year-old man. Police said a 31-year-old man shot in the torso and a 25-year-old man shot in the right arm both went to separate hospitals.
Gurley said that when police arrived, “there were two victims on the scene, there were two other victims that fled in a vehicle and flagged down EMS and were taken to an area hospital. And then we had two other victims that went into two different hospitals, one in Queens and one in the Bronx.
“Some are cooperating and some are not,” a police source told the Daily News.
None of the injured were in critical condition and all were expected to survive.
“There were shots, lots of shots. I came down and they were loading them into ambulances. It was crazy, yo,” said a witness.
Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All conversations will be kept confidential.
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