BYSTANDER SHOT IN PARKWAY MELEE

A 23-year-old resident of East New York was taken to the hospital early Sunday after becoming inadvertently involved in a shooting in front of the McDonald’s Restaurant, 1467 Rockaway Parkway at the corner of Conklin Avenue, police said. The woman, whose name was not released, was treated for a bullet graze to her left hand and forearm.

According to officials from the 69th Precinct Detective Squad, the woman told them she was waiting for her order at about 4 a.m. when a man standing next to her began arguing with another man sitting at a table with three others.

When one man said to the other that they should continue the argument outside, the three at the table and the single man proceeded to go outside where they started fighting and one of them pulled out a gun and fired two shots, the woman told police.

During the melee, the woman stood nearby, trying to shield herself, and the gun-wielder opened the door of the restaurant and fired another two shots inside. The victim said it was then that she felt a pain in her arm and hand and discovered she had been hit by a fragment or grazed by a bullet.

At that point, the four men turned and all fled in a green van north on Rockaway Parkway. Police and other emergency services were called and the woman was taken to Brookdale Hospital by Emergency Medical Service paramedics and declared in stable condition.

Police Crime Scene Unit officers discovered four spent 9 mm shell casings and bullet fragments at the scene.

Detectives ask that anyone with information on the shooting please contact them at (718) 257-6215 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. Charles Rogers