NEW YORK — One man died and three others were wounded in Queens and Brooklyn on Saturday when a scooter-riding shooter unleashed a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol on people he seemed to pick out randomly on the street, police said.
The 25-year-old suspect was in custody early Saturday afternoon, and police said there was no ongoing threat to the public.
Why the man fired in the five separate incidents was a mystery to police brass who spoke at a news conference several hours after his arrest. “It seems that his acts were random,” said Assistant Chief Joseph Kenny of the NYPD Detective Bureau.
