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A man used a motorized scooter to go from victim to victim in a shooting in New York City on Saturday that left one dead, three injured and a suspect in custody, police said.<\/p>\n
The apparently random attacks in Brooklyn and Queens began at 11:10 a.m., police said, and officially ended exactly two hours later with a suspect arrested in the last neighborhood, police said. <\/p>\n
The man, identified only as a 25-year-old with a prior arrest, had a 9mm semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine and an “illegal” scooter with no license plates, said NYPD First Deputy , Edward Caban, in a press conference.<\/p>\n
The suspect has not responded to detectives and appears to be suffering from emotional or mental problems, police sources said. However, it is unclear whether he has been evaluated by a mental health professional.<\/p>\n
The victim in the first attack was described as a 21-year-old man who was shot in the back in Brooklyn and was expected to survive, Deputy Chief Joseph Kenny said at the news conference.<\/p>\n
Seventeen minutes later, an 87-year-old man was shot in the back about two miles away in Queens, police said. He was rushed to a hospital where he died, they said.<\/p>\n
“The assailant was described as a man on a scooter shooting into a nail salon on Jamaica Avenue,” Kenny said.<\/p>\n
At nearly the same location, but in another attack, a shot was fired, but no one was hit, police said. “Numerous witnesses described the man on a scooter shooting randomly at a group of people standing on the corner,” said the assistant chief.<\/p>\n
Less than a mile away, also in Queens, a 44-year-old man standing on a street corner was shot in the face, police said. He was hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n
A few blocks away, at 11:37 a.m., the last victim known to police, described as a 63-year-old man, was shot in the shoulder, police said. He was stabilized at a hospital, they said.<\/p>\n
Four pans were found at that location, they said. Other scenes also featured multiple 9mm shell casings, they said.<\/p>\n
A blurry security camera image of a suspect on a motorcycle was sent to “every cop on the street,” Kenny said. <\/p>\n