A junior high school reunion party turned bloody early today when a gunmen pumped bullets into six people in Queens, leaving one dead, cops and witnesses said.
The mayhem erupted at 2:12 a.m. outside a Springfield Gardens home at 182-06 145 Drive, where about 200 people were attending the IS 238-grad soiree, witnesses said.
Police identified the dead man as Dane Freeman, 19, of Cambria Heights.
“Everything was going smooth and then someone came out of nowhere and boom, boom,” said partygoer George Sampson, 17. “That’s when everybody started running.
“I saw the boy who died get shot. Everybody was running and then pow! I saw the guy collapse. He was looking at me, and I looked away. When I turned back, his eyes were closed.”
Sampson ran for his own life.
Three men and two women, ranging in age from 21 to 25, were also struck by bullets and were recuperating at local hospitals.
Neighbor Shenee Johnson, 36, who says her 17-year-old son was killed at a party last week just blocks away, was outraged by the violence.
“No one’s safe. My son was not in a gang. They’re just going to keep dying and more parents are gonna keep going through this grief,” lamented Johnson, whose murdered son, Kedrick Alie Morrow, had been accepted to St. John’s University.
State Senator Malcolm Smith stopped by to address the senseless violence. “There are too many guns on the street,” he said. “We’ve got to do something to get the guns out of people’s hands. It’s not even Memorial Day yet. The summer hasn’t even started yet.”
No one has been arrested.