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Gunfire at Brooklyn backyard party injures 9

Six women and three men, aged between 17 and 38, were injured in the shooting, the New York Post reported.

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One of the women was four months pregnant and lost her child, according to NYPD Chief of Detective Bob Boyce.

The suspects are reportedly young men who have a history of arrests on gun charges, with some who have previously been shot themselves.

Police said officers were investigating the shooting.

CBS New York reports that a pregnant woman was among the victims. All five victims were taken to a hospital in varying conditions. At a news conference, Boyce identified one of the suspects. Nine people were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds, but all their injuries are not life-threatening.

Five people were shot in a gang-related drive-by shooting at 98 Dwight St., police said. Twenty-two people were shot in the city between Friday and Sunday – three of them fatally.

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One man was killed and ten other people were injured as a result of two overnight separate shootings in Brooklyn, the New York Police Department has confirmed.

Two separate shootings leave one killed and ten injured in Brooklyn