Two boys and two young men were wounded in shooting during a gathering at a Harlem playground early Sunday, cops said.
Shots rang out at Brigadier General Charles Young Playground on W. 143rd St. and Lenox Blvd. around 1:15 a.m., leaving a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy both shot in their left foot, cops said.
A 20-year-old man was shot in the groin and a 21-year-old man was shot in the right leg, police said.
Two boys and two young men were wounded in a shooting during a large gathering at the Brigadier General Charles Young Playground on W. 143rd St. near Lenox Ave. in Harlem early Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
Medics took all four victims to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.
Police have made no arrests.
On Sunday morning, a tow truck was about to haul away a van double parked on W. 143rd St. when a Daily News photographer pointed out a bullet hole in the windshield. The shocked tow truck driver had not noticed the bullet hole and left the van where it was after being alerted.
A van with a bullet hole in the front windshield is pictured after two boys and two young men were wounded in a shooting during a large gathering at the Brigadier General Charles Young Playground on W. 143rd St. near Lenox Ave. in Harlem early Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)Two boys and two young men were wounded in a shooting during a large gathering at the Brigadier General Charles Young Playground on W. 143rd St. near Lenox Ave. in Harlem early Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)Two boys and two young men were wounded in a shooting during a large gathering at the Brigadier General Charles Young Playground on W. 143rd St. near Lenox Ave. in Harlem early Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)Two boys and two young men were wounded in a shooting during a large gathering at the Brigadier General Charles Young Playground on W. 143rd St. near Lenox Ave. in Harlem early Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)Blood is seen at the scene where two boys and two young men were wounded in a shooting on a Harlem street early Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
