Three people have been killed and four more injured in a drive-by shooting in New York, according to police.

The incident occurred late on Wednesday when an unknown gunman opened fire from inside of a moving car, targeting a crowd in the vicinity of a club in Rochester, the New York Police Department said on Thursday.

The names of the victims were not released by officials. Police said the injured have all sustained non-threatening gun wounds.

The motive behind the shooting was still unknown and no arrests were made by the police.

Emotions ran high as a large crowd of the victims’ families and their friends gathered near the scene of the shooting early on Thursday.

Rochester police has urged the local community to come forward and help them with any kind of information that may lead to the arrest of the shooter.

According to Gun Violence Archive, more than 8200 Americans have been killed in various shootings across the US since the beginning of 2015.