Four killed in shooting at illegal NYC gambling site
NEWYORK:FOUR people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting at an illegal gambling club in New York City, police said.
The six men and one woman were shot just before 7am, local time, inside a building in the Crown Heights neighbourhood of Brooklyn.
Chief detective Dermot Shea said four men were dead at the scene and the others were taken to hospitals with injuries that were not life-threatening.
The victims, who have not been identified, ranged in age from 32 to 49, Shea said at a briefing. Two may have lived out of state and the rest were from neighbourhoods throughout Brooklyn, Shea added.
No arrests have been made, and police do not know the motive for the shootings, Shea said. He said two guns were found at the scene and more could potentially be found.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter that the city “awoke to senseless gun violence”.
The Democrat added, “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it until I can’t anymore: we have an epidemic of gun violence that spares no community - and it won’t stop until we get guns off our streets once and for all.”
SEVERAL WOUNDED IN SHOOTING IN CHURCH WASHINGTON: A gunman opened fire Saturday at a church holding a funeral in a small town in New Hampshire, injuring several people before being taken into custody, police said.
A police official in the northeast state told AFP she did not know how many people were hurt or the motive of the shooting.
The attack happened at New England Pentacostal Church, a building in the town of 15,000 in the far south of the largely rural state. The police official said she did know how the shooter was taken into custody.