[Updates Below]
Shots rang out during a barbecue gathering in the Bronx Saturday night, sending three men to the hospital with gunshot wounds.
An NYPD spokesperson confirmed that a 23-year-old man was shot three times in the abdomen, a 19-year-old was shot once in the leg, and a 20-year-old was shot once in the abdomen just before 10:30 p.m. last night near the intersection of West 242nd Street and Broadway in Van Cortlandt Park.
All three men were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition and are expected to recover, according to the police. The Post reports that one of the involved barbecue groups consisted of Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity brothers. Witnesses told the tabloid that there was shoving and a heated argument before the shooting.
"It looked like chaos," Andrew Mana, 48, told the Daily News. Mana described hearing at least six gunshots. "At first I thought it sounded like firecrackers, [but] then one thousand, maybe two-thousand people ran out of the park."
No arrests have been made in connection to the shootings. The police are still investigating.
[Update May 30th, 11:30 a.m.]: A representative from Lambda Upsilon Lambda has denied the fraternity's involvement in the shooting. "Our event leaders confirmed that none of the brothers were injured or involved in the altercation. The only involvement we had in the aftermath was through a brother who works full time as an EMT. Immediately after the shooting he provided first aid to a victim until the ambulance arrived."
