North Amityville shooting is the latest in rash of gun violence plaguing Suffolk County

A shooting in North Amityville Friday morning added to a series of gun violence incidents for the last week and a half in Suffolk County.

News 12 Staff

Nov 5, 2021, 7:04 PM

Updated 1,104 days ago

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A shooting in North Amityville Friday morning added to a series of gun violence incidents for the last week and a half in Suffolk County.
Police say a 21-year-old man was shot while driving on Geraldine Avenue at around 11 a.m.
Detectives say the victim was shot before he crashed into a fence, and the shooter was a person inside another vehicle.
The victim was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
Police are currently looking for the other vehicle in the shooting.
Over the last 11 days, gunfire rang out eight different times, including twice in Wyandanch where Dorima Boone lives.
"They got to do something about these guns on the street. They got to stop making it too easy to go and get a gun," Boone said.
Linda Beigel Schulman's son, Scott Beigel, was killed in the Parkland school shooting in 2018.
Since then, she's been fighting for gun safety regulations that she says would keep firearms away from those who mean to do harm.
"Common sense lets us all be safe. Common sense lets us all live without fear, and today everybody lives with fear," Beigel Schulman said. Andrew Chernoff at Coliseum Gun Traders, however, says the answer is to arm more law-abiding citizens.
"The criminal is not going to attack somebody if he thinks, or she thinks or the criminal thinks that they can defend themselves," Chernoff said.
Ray Tierney, Suffolk's next district attorney, would not speak with News 12 Long Island, but Nassau County District Attorney-elect Anne Donnelly said in a recent edition of News 12's Power & Politics that she plans to fight gun violence head on.
"I would really like to get some kind of task force in place to see about the guns that are coming into Nassau County," Donnelly said.
In a statement, acting Suffolk Police Commissioner Stuart Cameron wrote that shootings were down 10% during the month of October compared to one year ago. He also highlighted the department's Gun Crime Reduction Team.