DEER PARK, N.Y. (WCBS 880) — Police on Tuesday released surveillance video of a vehicle involved in two pellet gun shooting incidents on Long Island that left a 12-year-old girl.
Police said the child was walking in the parking lot of the Tanger Outlets in Deer Park around 5:20 p.m. Monday when she was struck by a pellet fired from an airsoft gun by a person in a passing vehicle.
The girl was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip where she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Police later determined the same vehicle was involved in a similar incident on Deer Park Avenue in North Babylon just 20 minutes earlier.
Vehicle involved in two pellet gun shooting incidents on Long IslandSuffolk County Police
Video of that incident shows a person in the passenger seat opening fire on three people standing on a corner across the street from a Buffalo Wild Wings. One of the pedestrians can be seen ducking as the shot goes off.
No one was injured in that incident.
The vehicle was described as a dark-colored four-door sedan, possibly a Hyundai Elantra, believed to be occupied by three or four males.
Detectives are asking anyone with information on the shooting to call the First Squad at 631-854-8152 or call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.
