NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The NYPD launched an investigation after at least 16 people were shot overnight in Brooklyn and Queens within a 90-minute span.
The shootings occurred between 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., according to police.
Three men in their 20s were injured during the first shooting that happened just after 11 p.m. in Queens on Sunday when the victims were struck by the gunfire at the corner of 140th Avenue and Thurston Street, in the Springfield Gardens neighborhood, officials said.
The victims told authorities that they heard shots and suddenly felt pain. They were taken to a local hospital to be treated.
Another shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. in Brooklyn, where a 32-year-old man was hospitalized after he was shot in the leg at the Marcy Houses NYCHA complex in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area, police said.
Another man fell while running away during the shooting and suffered a head injury, officials said.
At approximately 12:25 a.m. on Monday eight people were injured in a shooting at a large party outside a Brooklyn housing complex, police said.
The incident occurred at the Eleanor Roosevelt Houses NYCHA property in Bed-Stuy where four men male and four women ages from 18 to 27, were stuck, the NYPD said.
At around 12:30 a.m. in Queens a man was shot in the head, officials said.
The shooting happened in Ozone Park and the victim rushed to a local hospital in critical condition, police said.
Minutes later around 12:35 a.m. in Brooklyn, three teenagers in an SUV were injured when a gunman in another vehicle pulled up next to them and opened fire, police said.
The shooting happened near the intersection of Atlantic and Schenck avenues in the Cypress Hill section, according to officials.
A 16-year-old driving a Mercedes Benz SUV was shot in the side of his head and taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, the NYPD said.
Police said an 18-year-old male passenger was grazed in the arm, and a 19-year-old female passenger was shot in the leg.
They were both taken to area hospitals and treated for their injuries.
As of Monday morning, there have been no arrests had been made in any of the shootings.
An investigation into all of the shooting incidents remain ongoing.
Anyone with information in regard to any of these incidents is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
