NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man accused of killing an 86-year-old and injuring three different males in a sequence of shootings whereas driving a scooter in New York City is charged with homicide and tried homicide, police mentioned Sunday.

In all, six apparently random shootings occurred in Brooklyn and Queens on Saturday, based on police.

The motive of the alleged gunman, recognized Sunday as 25-year-old Thomas Abreu, was unknown, police mentioned.

Police arrested Abreu with out incident Saturday. The New York Police Department pulled a picture of the gunman from video and despatched it to officers, who noticed him a pair hours after the primary capturing, police mentioned.

Police confiscated a scooter and a 9 mm handgun with an prolonged journal. Abreu was charged with homicide, two counts of tried homicide and 6 counts of felony possession of a weapon.

The shootings started round 11:10 a.m., when the gunman shot a 21-year-old man within the shoulder in Brooklyn. The man was dropped at a hospital and was anticipated to outlive, police mentioned.

Soon after, Abreu allegedly shot Hamoo Saeidi, 86, of Queens, within the Richmond Hill space of Queens. Saeidi later died at a hospital.

Shortly afterward in Queens, witnesses reported a person on a scooter firing randomly into a gaggle of individuals, though no person was damage.

Eight minutes later, a 44-year-old man was shot within the face. He was in important situation at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

About one minute later, a 63-year-old man was shot within the torso. He was in steady situation at a hospital.

On Sunday, police reported a sixth associated capturing at an intersection in Queens. A 40-year-old man fired upon was unharmed.

Killings within the nation’s most populous metropolis have risen lately to about the place they have been a decade in the past however nonetheless effectively under an early-Nineteen Nineties peak. Gunfire accidents surged in New York City through the pandemic and stay stubbornly excessive. The metropolis has confronted a sequence of high-profile crimes.

Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, has known as for getting extra weapons off the streets.

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