[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - NYPD released new high-definition photos on Thursday showing two gunmen and their two accomplices on mopeds who are wanted by the police
- Two men approached a crowd in the busy Queens neighborhood of North Corona and opened fire, injuring 10 people, on July 31
- The men were gang members targeting rivals in the Trinitarios gang, cops said
- Three of the shooting victims were intended targets, but seven were people in the wrong place at the wrong time
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- Eight men and two women, who range in age from 19 to 72, were all hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries
- The NYPD and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa
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NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig described what was caught in the surveillance footage as 'pretty disturbing.'
'There's just one common theme I want to get out there that's a recurring theme that keeps happening and it has to stop throughout the city. That's gang members, that's guns, multiple guns on the scene, scooters being used, masks and, lastly, unintended targets getting hit. This is unacceptable in our streets of NYC and it has to stop,' he said.
Police said the two gunmen arrived at the scene on foot, but left by jumping on the backs of two mopeds driven by two other men. All four were wearing hooded sweatshirts and masks.
It is unclear which gang was involved, if any, but police said they were clearly targeting three Trinitarios members on the street.
Detectives suspect that the shooting was connected to a years-long feud between the Trinitarios and the Queens-based ABK (Always Banging Kings), according to the Daily News.
It also may be linked to the July 18 murder of Aldair Melchor, 25, who was shot dead on 132nd St. and 32nd Ave. in Flushing by a gunman in a black car sources told the Daily News. Since then, two more shootings have been tied to the ongoing gang war, the sources said.
The Trinitarios gang formed on Ryker's Island jail in 1993 as a means of protecting Hispanic inmates from other gangs. Outside jail, the Trinitarios began in the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn before expanding throughout the city and Long Island.
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