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NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting at a Fourth of July cookout near New
York's Coney Island beach wounded eight people, including four
children, police said.
One of the victims, a 21-year-old woman, was in critical
condition while the others were described as being stable and
expected to survive, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said
Sunday.
The shooting occurred Saturday night in the courtyard of an
apartment building about a block from the famed Coney Island
boardwalk and not far from the site of the Nathan’s Famous hot
dog eating contest held earlier on the holiday.
The police commissioner said a suspect wearing a black mask
fired into the courtyard where a family had gathered for a
cookout. The shooter fled but police did recover a gun, Tisch
said.
The children shot are ages 6, 7, 12 and 14, Tisch said. There
were no reports of any earlier disturbances at the gathering,
she said.
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