What to Know
- Police say a man in Crown Heights fired three shots Friday morning at a 37-year-old driver, hitting him in the abdomen
- In an attempt to flee, the driver flipped over his vehicle and his female passenger was injured
- It wasn't immediately clear what led to the shooting. Both victims are expected to be OK
A 37-year-old male driver was shot and his passenger was injured when bullets flew at their vehicle in Crown Heights early Friday.
Police are looking for a male suspect they say fired three rounds into the victims' Nissan Maxima around 3:30 a.m. near Crown Street and Schenectady Avenue. The wounded driver flipped his vehicle over while trying to escape.
He ended up with a gunshot wound to the abdomen and is hospitalized in stable condition; the female passenger dodged the bullets and suffered minor injuries.
It wasn't immediately clear what led to the shooting.
No other information was immediately available.
