Masked suspect sought in shooting that left 8 people, including 4 children, wounded in Brooklyn's Coney's Island: NYPD – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Masked suspect sought in shooting that left 8 people, including 4 children, wounded in Brooklyn’s Coney’s Island: NYPD  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Eight people, including four children, were shot during a Fourth of July family barbecue in Brooklyn's Coney Island. The shooting occurred during a family holiday barbecue, police said. Eight people, including four children, were shot during a Fourth of July family barbecue in Brooklyn's Coney Island when a masked gunman opened fire on the group without warning, police officials said. New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives are working to identify the suspect, who fled the scene on foot and remains at large, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference on Sunday. “There is no place for this kind of violence in our city. We will not tolerate it.

We will fight it with every single tool at our disposal," New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at the news conference. "As we mourn alongside those whose loved ones have been hurt, let us also recommit ourselves to the work of building a city where every celebration is safe and every holiday is joyful,” Mamdani added. Tisch said the victims included a 37-year-old man, a 33-year-old man, a 21-year-old woman, a 25-year-old woman and the four children, ages 6, 7, 12 and 14. The commissioner said seven of the victims suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds but the the 21-year-old victim was shot in the chest and is hospitalized in critical