Brighton Beach on Thursday afternoon, a gunman shot five along the boardwalk, critically wounding one person and killing another.The area was especially crowded today because it was "Brooklyn-Queens Day," and hundreds of kids were in the area celebrating their day off from school.At least one witness on the scene believes it was gang-related.Two of the victims are badly wounded, the authorities said.
The shooting took place around 5:20 p.m. on the boardwalk near Brighton Sixth Street, the Fire Department said.The shooting unfolded on a day when a mini-heat wave and a school holiday sent hordes of people to Coney Island and Brighton Beaches, which were teeming with beachgoers — many of them teenagers — trying to escape temperatures approaching 100 degrees.Saya Suzuki, 30, was just about to sit down inside a boardwalk restaurant with her six-year-old daughter, Sonya, when the shooting began just outside. Ms. Suzuki said she heard about six shots, then grabbed her daughter and saw two teenagers run by her.“I just picked up my daughter and got away from the bullets,” she said. “It happened so quickly and I had to protect my daughter.”
As the police roped off the scene and combed the boardwalk, Ms. Suzuki, still terrified, stayed in the restaurant for two hours waiting for her husband. She said she had noticed other incidents earlier in the day that worried her.
“I think some gang things were happening because we heard some shots one hour earlier,” she said.
"I think some gang things were happening because we heard some shots one hour earlier,” said Saya Suzuki, who was at the scene with her daughter. Pat Singer, president of the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association seemed to agree. "These kids come not to swim, they come for turf fights," he said.
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