New York police probing whether BB gun shootings were a hate crime
3 yeshiva students among 6 targeted in Long Beach; no arrests made
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Police in Long Beach, New York are investigating a series of BB gun shootings in which six people were targeted.
Three of victims targeted on Saturday night at Temple Israel on Riverside Boulevard on Long Island were yeshiva students.
Authorities are looking into whether the shootings constituted a hate crime and whether the students were targeted because of their religion.
The three other passers-by who were hit, all of them women, are not Jewish.
No arrests have been made.
Law enforcement officials said one of the bullets hit the ankle of one of the students, while a second casing struck another’s hat, according to ABC7.
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