Six men were injured, one critically, during a wild shooting in Brooklyn early Saturdaythe police said.
The victims scattered after the barrage of bullets and showed up at various hospitals in the area seeking medical attention starting at 1:50 a.m., police said.
The police later established that they were all injured near the corner of Cherry St. and Stewart Ave.a desolate industrial site off the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Greenpoint.
The first victims, three 18-year-old men, presented themselves at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, police said. One suffered a gunshot wound to the ankle and another was hit in the face, police said. Both were expected to survive.
The third 18-year-old man had been shot in the chest and was listed in critical condition.
At the same time, a 33-year-old man showed up at Woodhull Hospital with a gunshot wound to his right ankle, police said.
Two other men, both 20, arrived at Jamaica Hospital in Queens. One had been shot in the left leg. The other had been shot in the back.
All three men were expected to survive.
All of the victims said they were shot near the corner, though it was not immediately clear what sparked the fire.
Two men were being sought for questioning, but it was not clear whether the two men fired the shots.
There doesn’t appear to be any stores or nightlife on the corner, which contains a number of stores and a truck parking lot.
Detectives are looking into all possibilities, including that the shooting may have been sparked by a road rage incident on the BQE that ended up on the service road, police sources said.
Police were combing the area, hoping to recover surveillance footage that could help them determine what happened.