Man Shoots Up July 4 Brooklyn BBQ After Being Denied Entry, Police Say

Pictured: The Ocean Hill apartment building where gunshots rang out Monday night. Image via Google Maps

OCEAN HILL, BROOKLYN — An unidentified man shot up a Fourth of July cookout in Ocean Hill, near Bed-Stuy, after he was turned away from the party, according to the New York City Police Department.

The man apparently began shooting because he was "denied entry to a party" at 419 Chauncey St. — an apartment building near the corner of Saratoga Avenue — around 11:30 p.m. Monday, an NYPD spokesman told Patch.

Seven people were injured in the shooting, police said: four males and three females.

All the shooting victims were expected to live Tuesday, police said, and were recovering at Brookdale Hospital and Kings County Hospital.

Police have yet to make any arrests in the Independence Day shooting. However, a "person of interest" was being questioned Tuesday, according to a police spokesman.

"The investigation remains ongoing," the spokesman said.

The July 4 BBQ shooting in Bed-Stuy was one of at least six shootings overnight in Brooklyn, according to various news reports.

In the first, around 9 p.m., a male victim was injured at Chauncey and Broadway — just a few blocks from the barbecue.

And according to NBC New York:

Less than an hour later, at 10:15 p.m. in Bushwick, an 18-year-old man was shot near Wilson Avenue and Cooper Street. He was hit multiple times in his torso by bullets fired from a vehicle, police said. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition.

At 11:15 p.m., a 22-year-old man was shot as he was walking down Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, police said. The victim said he heard shots and felt pain. He suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg and was taken to an area hospital in stable condition.