Police were searching for two teens after a 16-year-old boy was shot near the Hofstra University campus on Long Island.
Nassau County police said that the 16-year-old was shot shortly before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday on Fenimore Avenue, just blocks away from the university's campus in Uniondale.
Officers found the teen lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head. He was rushed to an area hospital, where he remained in critical condition Wednesday morning.
Hofstra students received texts and social media messages to warn them about the shooting. Police said that the teen was not a Hofstra student and that the shooting was in no way related to the college.
The Hofstra Chronicle tweeted Tuesday night that police had notified the university and that the “subjects have fled the area.”
Police said that they were looking for two teenagers around the same age as the victim. Witnesses told police that the victim had gotten into a fight with the teens before he was shot and that the suspects fled on bicycles.
Nassau Police Lt. Richard LeBrun called the shooting tragic. He said that police had looked all over campus for the suspects but could not find them.
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“They’ve intensified their patrols and increased their patrols. They have no evidence that these individuals are on campus right now,” LeBrun said Wednesday morning.
Investigators from the Nassau County gang unit are looking into whether or not the shooting was gang related.
