Police: 3 shot, including 15-month-old toddler, in Monticello, N.Y.
MONTICELLO, N.Y. -- Three people, including a 15-month-old toddler, were shot and wounded in Monticello, New York, late Friday, police said.
As some neighbors at the Jefferson Gardens apartments glanced at the house nestled behind their complex, their safety was clearly on their minds, along with the sounds of gunshots they heard Friday night.
"It's crazy, you know. You wonder what's going on in the community," one neighbor said. "I thought it was fireworks initially, then you hear the cops' sirens and stuff."
Monticello police say someone standing outside intentionally fired several rounds into a house on Holmes Street.
"I just heard boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, like that, while I was pulling in my parking spot," one neighbor said.
It was just after 10 p.m. when one woman was coming home
"I'm thinking, 'Oh my god, I need to stay in my car,'" she said.
Her apartment window faces the house, and she watched officers tape off the back and bring out the K-9s.
"There was a lot of shell casing by my window and by the building door," she said.
Investigators say three people in the house were shot: a 27-year-old man, a 20-year-old woman and a 15-month-old baby boy.
"It's scary. It's real scary because it's right there, as you can see," a neighbor said.
The woman was treated at a local hospital and released. The man and the baby are still recovering.
In the village of about 7,000 people 90 miles away from New York City, the news of the shooting spread quickly.
"It's sickening," Deputy Mayor Michael Banks said.
Banks is a father himself.
"This community is about kids," he said.
He's now urging his community to have faith that the police will find the shooter.
"We will get them. We have three agencies, possibly four, on it. Whoever it is, they're going to have to answer to justice," he said.
As investigators search for that shooter, they say the 15-month-old boy was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center. He's in critical condition, and so many say they are praying for his well-being and full recovery.
