#Coney Island shooting leaves one dead, four struck in possible ‘retaliation’: NYPD

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The scene at the shooting in Coney Island Saturday night
Seth Gottfried

A man was shot dead early Sunday as four were hit in an attack in Coney Island — which “may have been retaliation” for a shooting at the same spot a day earlier, according to police.

After another bloody 24-hours in the city Saturday that already saw 18 people injured in 16 separate shootings, police found four men with “various gunshot wounds to their bodies” near to NYCHA housing on Brooklyn’s West 23rd at around 2 a.m., the NYPD said.

Emergency crews raced all four to hospitals, but a 27-year-old man was pronounced dead at NYC Health Hospitals/Coney Island. He has yet to be identified, pending family notification.

A 36-year-old man also taken to the Coney Island hospital was in a serious but stable condition, as were two others — men aged 35 and 41 — who were taken to NYU Langone-Brooklyn, the NYPD said.

The three survivors were “highly uncooperative,” police said. It was not immediately clear how many had fired shots, and there had been no arrests early Sunday, police said.

Cops fear the murder “may have been retaliation” for a shooting at almost exactly the same spot near the Gerald J. Carey Gardens housing a little over 24-hours earlier, the spokesperson said.

Late Friday, an e-hail driver was shot during an altercation with a gunman on a bicycle who rolled up to his vehicle, police had said. The 30-year-old driver was originally listed as being in a stable condition.

The 16 shootings from midnight-to-midnight Saturday — leaving 18 victims — yet again continued the alarming surge of gun crime in the city that has already far exceeded the number for the whole of last year.