If you are up in the city's upper West Ward, that police activity is an active and ongoing investigation into a shooting with a confirmed hit on one male victim at this time.
Details are developing as we await a public information request, but according to preliminary reports, gunfire rang out in the vicinity of 18th and Stuyvesant avenues sending police officers to the scene where they arrived to find the victim struck by bullets at that location.
A male victim was reportedly standing in one of the stores in the area when a lone suspect entered and began to shoot the victim in the back just before 9:35 a.m. according to reports.
Authorities have not confirmed the extent of the victim's injuries.
The male suspect who wore a mask, blue jeans, and a dark colored hoodie fled the scene immediately after the shooting reports said.
Although police have secured the area, you are going to want to avoid the vicinity of 197 Stuyvesant for the police investigation.
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