Overview
- MTA Police say the shooting happened early Friday at about 2:25 a.m. when one person in a group of four fired toward passengers as others were exiting and a 40-year-old man boarded the eastbound train.
- Officers boarded the train at the next stop, Mastic-Shirley, found the victim with a gunshot wound to the right shoulder, and he was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
- News reports differ on the victim's immediate status, with one outlet saying he was treated and released and another saying he was in stable condition at NYU Langone Hospital - Suffolk.
- The shooter and three others fled the Bellport station and remain at large; MTA Police are working with Suffolk County Police while reviewing video and witness statements and pursuing leads.
- Montauk Branch service was suspended between Speonk and Patchogue during the morning commute and later resumed, and the limited suspect description — four young men wearing hoodies — complicates the search.