At least eight people, including four children, were shot and wounded on Saturday during the Fourth of July holiday in New York City’s Coney Island section, according to police.
The shooting happened at about 10.35pm on the Brooklyn neighborhood’s West 30th Street – not far from a boardwalk where a fireworks display had been set less than an hour earlier.
Those injured include a 33-year-old man and 21-year-old woman shot in the chest; a 25-year-old woman; and a 37-year-old man struck in the shoulder. A six-year-old boy was struck in the stomach; a seven-year-old boy was shot in the legs or thigh;
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