Police from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway are looking for a gunman who shot two women at the Ocean Bay Apartments in Arverne on the night of Saturday, May 10.
The suspect is seen on video surveillance at around 9:35 p.m. approaching the southeast corner of the NYCHA complex at Beach 54th Street and Arverne Boulevard, where he pulled out a handgun and opened fire at a group of people, striking two women before running off. When officers responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress at the complex, which is also called the Oceanside Apartments, they found the two victims: a 34-year-old woman who was shot in both legs and a 32-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her leg. EMS responded to the location and transported the victims to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where they were both listed in stable condition.
Following the shooting incident, the gunman fled southbound on Beach 54th Street toward the Rockaway Boardwalk. An NYPD spokesman said the suspect remains at large, and detectives at the 101st Precinct have not yet determined a motive behind the shooting. The suspect was dressed in all black clothing with a black facemask.
A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest.
Anyone with information regarding this shooting investigation is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are confidential.
Through May 11, the 101st Precinct has reported two shooting incidents so far in 2025, two fewer than the four reported at the same point last year, a decline of 50%, according to the most recent CompStat report. Felony assaults are also down in the precinct with 117 reported so far this year, three fewer than the 120 reported at the same point in 2024, a decrease of 2.5%, according to CompStat.
