Police search for suspects in paintball attacks in Queens

FLUSHING (WABC) -- A search is underway for whoever is behind some terrifying paintball attacks.

It's been happening in Queens for the past few weeks.

Police believe the paintballers are actually recording their mischief.

"Just the pain, it hurt so much. And when I opened my eye, I couldn't really see that well. I was getting scared," the victim said.

Scared, because this 11th grader from Flushing never knew what hit him last Friday until he felt the paint on his hands.

Eyewitness News is not revealing his identity, just showing a close-up of the eye injury resulting from the random paintball attack.

According to the NYPD, it's the sixth one in Queens in the past two and a half weeks.

"I went to the emergency room, called my mom. She was pretty mad about it, she was upset. I was pretty upset, too. I couldn't see for a few days," the victim said.

He had just been to a street fair with friends and was in the area of 20th Avenue and Clintonville Street in Whitestone, when it happened. But on Monday evening of last week, it was the church on 154th Street in Flushing that was targeted, while a woman was working inside.

"It sounded like a hurricane coming in, and just pushing at the door. It was that violent," said Wendy Keiser-O'Neill, a paintball attack victim.

They also attacked her car.

Police say all the attacks have been in the area of North Flushing and Whitestone. Since May 24th, at least two buildings and four pedestrians have been hit.

On the Facebook page for the 109th Precinct's Community Council, police describe the drive-by attacks as coming from three suspects in a black Jeep. They say, "Apparently one of them was videotaping the incident."

"They might be putting it on YouTube as a thrill, and they might find it funny to be hurting other people, but it really isn't," Keiser-O'Neill said.

This victim is just glad his vision is coming back and has a simple question for his attackers...why?

"Why not go to the fair that everybody else was at? Why do you have to go around shooting people in your car? And making everybody else's life so miserable?" the victim said.