NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A 12-year-old girl was shot and two women were wounded—at least one of them stabbed—in a wild street brawl in Queens on Wednesday night, police said.
Witnesses described 10 girls and young women fighting around 8 p.m. on a sidewalk outside NYCHA's South Jamaica Houses.
During the fight at 160th Street and 108th Avenue, two masked shooters, believed to be men, walked up and fired at least five shots, striking the 12-year-old girl in the arm, police said.
There was a series of "booms," sending people in the crowd scattering, according to witnesses.
During the chaos, a 26-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest and an 18-year-old woman suffered a head wound that's also believed to be a stab wound, police said.
All three victims were hospitalized in stable condition.
It's unclear if the 12-year-old was the target of the shooting.
The gunmen fled in a car after the shooting, police said.
No arrests had been reported as of Thursday, and no weapons were recovered at the scene.
The shooting came just hours after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed in the head and shoulder by a masked attacker in Jamaica on Wednesday afternoon. She too was in stable condition at a hospital. No arrests have been reported.
