4 people, including 2 children, injured in shooting outside Bronx park: police

THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) – Four people, including two young children, were injured when a gunman opened fire outside a park in the Bronx Tuesday evening, police said.

The shooting happened outside St. James Park near East 193rd Street and Morris Avenue around 5:50 p.m., according to the NYPD.

Surveillance video showed two suspects pulling up on a motorized scooter outside St. James Park. The passenger got off the scooter and then fired into a crowd of people, injuring two children and two men outside St. James Park, NYPD officials said.

A 6-year-old boy and a 3-year-old boy who were with their mother on East 193rd Street both suffered wounds to their leg, police said. A 25-year-old man was shot in his back, and a 23-year-old man was shot in the thigh, according to police.

All four victims were expected to survive their injuries, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said at a news conference Tuesday night.

Chell said there were hundreds of people in St. James Park at the time of the shooting. Police are unsure about who were the intended targets and the motive for the shooting.

The suspects, who haven't been arrested, fled on the scooter eastbound on East 193rd Street and then southbound onto Creston Avenue, authorities said. They were both wearing all black and masks, police said.

Police released surveillance video showing the suspects on the scooter.

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