Independence Day shootings: 14 people shot in bloody 4th of July celebrations in New York

Fourteen people were shot in a night of violence during Independence Day celebrations in New York.
The night of July 4th saw a series of separate shootings in the US city. In Brooklyn seven people were shot and injured.
In the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, five people, including three women were shot during a large gathering around 11.30pm last night.
A 22 year-old man and two women were shot in the hand, another woman was shot in the thigh, and another man was also shot.
In the same neighbourhood around two and a half hours earlier, a 22 year-old man was shot in the chest after a group of people allegedly fled the scene.
In the middle-class Bushwick district of Brooklyn, an 18 year-old man was shot five times in the torso around 10.15pm in a suspected drive-by.