Cops: Bystander shot in East Islip bar altercation
An emergency vehicle outside the Outfield Pub in East Islip early Sunday after a bystander inside was shot and critically wounded during an altercation, police said. Credit: Paul Mazza
A bystander was shot in the neck and critically wounded early Sunday in East Islip after an altercation between two men inside a bar, Suffolk police said.
About 1:10 a.m., a man approached another man inside Outfield Pub on Carleton Avenue "and pressed a gun against his body," police said in a news release. The gun fired and a bullet struck a woman in the neck, police said.
The woman was taken to a hospital and is in critical condition, police said, adding that the gunman fled the scene.
The male victim was treated at a hospital for nonlife threatening injuries. The identities of the victims and the suspect were not immediately available.
A representative of the bar could not be reached for comment Sunday.
Detectives are asking anyone with information to contact the Third Squad at 631-854-8352 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS [8477].
Vera Chinese joined Newsday in 2017 after working as an editor for the East End lifestyle publication northforker and a general assignment reporter for the New York Daily News.
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