An apparently gang-related shooting battle broke out during a basketball tournament at a Bronx park — leaving one dead, four injured and four more arrested, according to sources and the NYPD.’
Bullets flew on Burke Avenue and Wickham Avenue near Haffen Park just before 5:30 p.m. Saturday with police arriving to find one 32-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the chest and a 30-year-old man shot in the back, the NYPD said.
Both were transported to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition. 3
The 32-year-old was pronounced dead at Jacobi while the 30-year-old remains in critical condition, according to cops.
In the same time frame, three other people transported themselves to area hospitals with gunshot wounds, cops said.
A 17-year-old female walked to Jacobi Hospital with a gunshot w