By Our Reporter
NEW YORK [SHIFTMEDIA] – Ten people were injured in a mass shooting in the New York City borough of Queens late on New Year’s Day, the New York Police Department said in a news briefing early on Thursday.
The injured in the incident outside a private events club late on Wednesday evening included six females and four males and all were expected to recover, police said.
The incident, according to
Reuters News occurred when 3-4 males opened fire toward a crowd outside the club, the NYPD said. Users took to social media expressing shock at the incident and sharing pictures of police deployment at the site.
Police ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack.
The incident came hours after two other acts of violence elsewhere in the U.S. on New Year’s Day. In New Orleans, a truck plowed into a street crowded with New Year’s revelers,
killing 15 people, and in Las Vegas a
Tesla truck exploded outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person and injuring seven.
U.S. authorities were scrambling to track down suspects related to the New Orleans and Las Vegas incidents and also investigating possible terrorism angles.
Mother used and Human Shield
A 40-year-old mother was one of six people
shot in a New York City convenience store when one of the suspected targets of a “brazen and heartless attack” used her as a human shield, authorities said.
The two gunmen who opened fire on a group of people Monday evening in the crowded convenience store in the New York borough of the Bronx remained at large Tuesday morning as investigators worked to identify them, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).
The mother, whose name was not released, suffered a bullet wound to her stomach and her 12-year-old daughter was shot in the leg during the incident that also left four men with gunshot wounds, NYPD Interim Chief of Department John Chell said at a news conference Monday evening outside the G&W Grocery, where the shooting occurred.