NYPD officers get into shootout with gunmen who opened fire on Queens house party

Alright, and now to that police-involved shooting in Queens, investigators say the good times got worse when a group arrived at a

house

party

in Laurelton and

opened

fire

. Our Jessica Formoso is there now with more information about what happened, Jessica, what's the latest? On this good night, Briella, this is still an active scene. You can see the crime tape here still on and the crime scene van just stopped as we were going on air and drove away. I should say now that this is still an active investigation. This happened at around 11:30 p.m. m. last night and police are still piecing together what happened here.

Now three people are in custody tonight. Police tell us they are still looking for more suspects and that two of the suspects are known to police. It seemed that way. About 20 shots or so was a lot, it was shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Friday when police were engaged in a

shootout

with a group of men who

opened

fire

at a

house

party

in Laurelton Queens, police New York says there were between 75 and 100 people in this house. party near 219th Street and 130th Avenue plainclothes

officers

from the violent crime squad were outside the house monitoring the party, they were observing a party in the area and they were observing this party because they believe there was potential for violence involving Some of the Local police say that suddenly a car stopped, a group of armed men jumped out and started shooting into the crowd, they pulled out at least three guns and started shooting in the surrounding area.

The detectives saw this and realized that danger was imminent. They got out of their vehicles and confronted the group of men. Sophia Steman Franklin lives behind the house where the shooting took place. Surveillance video from their backyard shows some of the partygoers running through their yard trying to escape the gunshots, the kids were screaming and then they were jumping the fence and they were going into our yard and then my husband came out because now They are trapped in the garden because we have another fence here and that fence is padlocked so he had to unlock it to get out. that they ran through the fence and out of the yard none of the

officers

involved in the shooting were injured three people were arrested at the scene and three firearms were recovered I'm surprised I'm surprised this doesn't happen here oh my god that's sad , it's a quiet ship, I don't know what's going on now, four people were shot, one they tell us is in critical condition, the rest suffered non-life-threatening injuries, now we don't know if the people who were shot were them are they the partygoers or the suspects, we also don't know if they were shot by the police or the suspect, there are still unanswered questions and we hope to get more information as the night goes on, we will be live here in Queens tonight. m jessica framoso fox 5 news briella back with you inside a lot an ongoing investigation thank you very much jessica