NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – The NYPD released an image Thursday of a suspect in the shooting at this year’s West Indian Day Parade that killed one man and left four other people wounded.
The image, which shows a man in a hoodie and shorts, is the first of a suspect released since the Sept. 2 shooting along the parade route.
Festivities were underway at 2:30 p.m. that day in Crown Heights when gunfire erupted near 307 Eastern Parkway.
Denzel Chan, a 25-year-old man from Texas, was shot in the stomach and died at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County.
Four other people were shot and wounded, including a 69-year-old woman shot in the right shoulder, a 64-year-old man shot in the right arm, a 36-year-old man shot in the head, and a 16-year-old boy shot in the left arm.
They were all hospitalized and expected to survive.
It’s unclear who the shooter was gunning for, but NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said at a news conference “this was not random.”
“This was one person intentionally going after a group of people who tried to ruin the day for everybody,” the chief said.
The NYPD has been seeking video from parade-goers, saying it could be pivotal to the investigation, which has so far led to no arrests.
“We need that video,” Chell said. “We are going to solve this, but it’s going to take a lot of work.”
The parade—which is one of the world’s largest annual celebrations of Caribbean culture—attracts huge crowds, who line the almost 2-mile route running from Crown Heights to the Brooklyn Museum.
Though a joyous occasion, the parade and related celebrations have been marred by violence over the years.
In 2016, two people were killed and several others wounded near the parade route. The year before, Carey Gabay, an aide to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo was shot in the head during pre-parade festivities. He died nine days later.
On Wednesday, state Sen. Zellnor Myrie joined advocates to introduce two bills in response to the shooting, saying the legislation would "strengthen New York's commitment to addressing the scourge of gun violence by creating a uniform standard for responding to incidents like this one, and ensuring that the state has the infrastructure needed to prevent them."
Among other things, the package of bills—S.9904 and S.9905—would change the state’s legal definition of a "mass shooting" to include incidents when four or more people are injured or killed, a change from the current definition of four or more killed. Myrie said that would help the state better allocate resources following a mass shooting.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.