NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — The search is on for at least two gunmen after a shooting at a Sweet 16 after-party in a Brooklyn apartment building left one woman dead and six teenagers wounded.
Gunfire erupted inside 15 Albany Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 11:15 p.m. Sunday.
Police said a gunman opened fire outside and continued to shoot after heading into the lobby of the building and while going upstairs to the third floor.
Police said a 20-year-old woman who was taken by private means to NYC Health & Hospitals/Woodhull succumbed to her injuries. Her identity has not been released.
The youngest victim, a 14-year-old girl, was shot in the buttocks and was listed in stable condition at Maimonides Hospital.
A 16-year-old boy who was shot in the torso is listed in critical condition at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County.
Four other people, ranging in age from 15 to 19, are listed in stable condition at area hospitals after sustaining gunshot wounds to the leg and torso.
"Any shooting is troubling and disturbing, this incident, we have a 20-year-old, a female, who is deceased. It's horrible," said Deputy Chief Michael Kemper with NYPD's Brooklyn North precinct.
Police believe the shooting may have been in retaliation for an earlier shooting at a Sweet 16 party on Liberty Avenue in East New York that left a 17-year-old injured, WCBS-TV reported.
No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
Chief of Detectives Terence Monahan said police "will continue to work tirelessly until there is an arrest."
Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS.