NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — Three shootings occurred in less than two hours of one another during the late afternoon on Thursday, and incidents in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx left a man in critical condition and two women injured.
The first shooting happened as a northbound A train was approaching the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets subway station in Boreum Hill, Brooklyn at about 4:45 p.m.
Police held a press conference to provide preliminary information on the shooting, which they said was the result of a verbal and physical altercation.
According to NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper, a 36-year-old man provoked a dispute with a 32-year-old man when he got on the train at Nostrand Avenue.
The altercation shifted between verbal and physical before the 36-year-old pulled out a gun and approached the 32-year-old “in a menacing way.” At that point, the 32-year-old removed the gun from the other man and shot him multiple times.
The 36-year-old is in critical condition at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn, and the 32-year-old is in police custody. For more information regarding this incident, click here.
Not even an hour later, a shooting in Hollis, Queens left a 19-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the hip.
At about 5:38 p.m. at Francis Lewis Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue, the victim was shot once by an unknown male after a dispute, police said.
The woman was transported to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in stable condition, and officials said that the suspect fled southbound on Francis Lewis Boulevard on foot.
The relationship between the shooter and victim is unclear, as is the dispute that preceded the attack.
The final shooting occurred at about 6:17 p.m. at 971 Kelly St., located in the Longwood section of the Bronx. The residential building is located right next to Hispanic Aids Forum Inc., a social services organization in the neighborhood.
An unknown man shot a woman, 30s, once in the buttocks. She is in stable condition, police said.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting were not immediately clear.
In both the Queens and Bronx shootings, there have been no arrests and individual investigations are ongoing.