Four people were shot outside a Brooklyn lounge, one of two separate shootings across New York City overnight that left five people injured, police said.
A 31-year-old man was fighting for his life after unknown gunmen opened fire on a group of people outside the Island CZ Lounge on Utica Avenue near Farragut Road in Flatbush at 3:20 a.m. Saturday, police said. The victim was shot multiple times in the leg, while two men, ages 36 and 28, and a woman, 25, were also struck but expected to survive, cops said.
All four shooting victims were taken to Kings County Hospital, according to an NYPD spokesman, who said it was unclear what sparked the shootings or if the victims knew each other or were the intended targets.
Two hours later in the Bronx, a 43-year-old man was shot in the arm and left leg on East 228th Street near White Plains Road at 5:30 a.m., police said. The uncooperative victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.