Aug. 28 (UPI) — Police on Sunday were searching for the man who shot one dead and injured four others on the Coney Island boardwalk in New York City late Saturday. NYPD officers responded to the boardwalk and West 29th Street in Brooklyn after a 911 call reported multiple people shooting around 11:57 p.m. Saturday night, a police spokesperson confirmed to UPI. The 42-year-old man who was killed has not been located pending family notification. He was shot in the back. The other four victims are described as a 49-year-old woman who was shot in the right leg, a 34-year-old woman who was shot in the right leg, a 46-year-old man who was shot in the left leg and another man who was shot in the left leg. All victims were taken to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn for treatment. No arrests have been made and police told CNN that officers are still looking for at least one gunman. Bystanders told WABC they heard about seven gunshots in “very rapid” succession. “I was like somebody’s having a party probably,” said one passerby. “I didn’t see any fireworks though. Well, I thought it might have been gunshots, but I wish it was the fireworks.” Figures from the NYPD released last Sunday show there have been 1,077 shooting victims so far this year, down 10.8 percent from the same period last year, when there were 1,207 shooting victims. The number of shooting incidents also fell from 1,010 through August 21, 2021, to 896 on the same date this year, a decrease of more than 11 percent. Murders fell 11.2% from 304 in 2021 to 270 this year.
