Summary
A mass shooting outside the Amazura Concert Hall in Jamaica, Queens, left 10 teenagers, aged 16 to 19, injured on New Year’s Day.
Four male suspects fired about 30 rounds into a crowd of 15 people waiting outside a vigil for a 16-year-old victim of a prior shooting.
All victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries and are expected to recover.
Police are searching for the suspects, who fled in a light-colored sedan. Queens officials condemned the violence, and the public is urged to assist with the investigation.
This is almost certainly a gang killing. The kid they were memorializing was very likely a gang killing as well.
Streets gangs are organized, but have largely had their leadership structures dismantled through RICO.
Most, if not all, of these kids are set/clique banging. Their outbursts of violence tend to be more about bloodfueds, and less protecting their rackets market share, or profits.