Six men wounded in Brooklyn shooting, one critically: NYPD

Six men were wounded, one critically, during a wild shooting in Brooklyn early Saturday , cops said.

The victims scattered after the barrage of bullets and showed up at different area hospitals looking for medical care beginning at 1:50 a.m., cops said.

Police later determined that they were all wounded near the corner of Cherry St. and Stewart Ave. , a desolate industrial spot alongside the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Greenpoint.

The first victims, three 18-year-old men, showed up at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, cops said. One suffered a gunshot wound to the ankle and another had been shot in the face, cops said. Both were expected to survive.

The third 18-year-old man had been shot in the chest and was listed in critical condition.

At around the same time, a 33-year-old man showed up at Woodhull Hospital with a gunshot wound to his right ankle, police said.

Two other men, both 20, arrived at Jamaica Hospital in Queens. One had been shot in the left leg. The other had been shot in the back.

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