NewsCopter 7 was overhead after the victims were shot outside a building near the corner of East 221st Street and Bronxwood Avenue around 6 p.m.
Police say three men were injured, including a 27-year-old man who was shot in the right hand, a 21-year-old man who was shot in the back and in the left arm pit and a 33-year-old man who was shot twice in the right leg.
Paramedics rushed two men in their 20s to Jacobi Hospital, while the 33-year-old victim was taken to the same hospital by private means.
All three victims are expected to survive.
Police have made no arrests so far.
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