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Two men shot while driving on Sagtikos Parkway in Brentwood

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Suffolk County police investigate a shooting that injured two men on the Sagtikos State Parkway in Brentwood.

Police said two men were wounded in a 4 a.m. shooting Friday while driving on the Sagtikos State Parkway in Brentwood.

The victims are both 24 years old and related to one another, police said. The two men were heading north in separate vehicles about a quarter-mile north of Pine Aire Drive, police said, when someone in another vehicle opened fire.

One of the men drove to the Suffolk Police’s Second Precinct, where he was helped by officers and then taken to South Shore University Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to his lower back.

Bullets struck the second victim on the wrist and thigh. He drove himself to Huntington Hospital.

Police described both men’s injuries as non-life-threatening.

Detectives with the police eepartment’s First Squad are investigating the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to contact the First Squad at 631.854.8152 or Suffolk County Crime Stoppers at 1.800.220.TIPS.

Top: Sagtikos Parkway on Friday (Mike White photo)

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