NEW YORK: A scooter-riding gunman killed an 87-year-old man and wounded three others in a string of random shootings that stretched across two New York City boroughs, police said. A 25-year-old man was taken into custody without incident and his identity was not revealed by police, assistant police chief Joseph Kenny said at on Saturday. A 9-mm handgun with an extended magazine and a scooter were recovered.
The New York Police Department pulled an image of the gunman from video and sent it to phones of officers, some of whom spotted the suspect about two hours after the first shooting. “We don’t know the motive. It seems his acts were random,” Kenny said. In all, the NYPD said there were five shootings carried out during the spree by someone on a scooter, one in Brooklyn and four in Queens. No one was injured.
The New York Police Department pulled an image of the gunman from video and sent it to phones of officers, some of whom spotted the suspect about two hours after the first shooting. “We don’t know the motive. It seems his acts were random,” Kenny said. In all, the NYPD said there were five shootings carried out during the spree by someone on a scooter, one in Brooklyn and four in Queens. No one was injured.